February 7, 2018Oil has been flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline for months now, and lawsuits surrounding protests there in 2016 are winding their way through the court system. Wednesday, the Center for...
July 3, 2019...The settlement was signed Friday said Jen Nessel, a spokesperson with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the tribe in the federal lawsuit. It dismisses all fines levied...
July 17, 2020...The landowners are represented by Pam Spees and Astha Sharma Pokharel at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Misha Mitchell at Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and Bill Quigley. Alexis Daniel, a...
January 2012Five years after his release, and near the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay detention center, CCR client Murat Kurnaz, and author of “Five Years of My Life: An Innocent...
Aya Saed is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in challenging unlawful detentions, counterterrorism practices, the criminalization of dissent, and...
Please join CCR and partners in court for oral argument in Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement in California’s...
Updated: February 22, 2018
In the 20 years since the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force on 1 July 2002, conflicts around the world have proliferated, the scale of atrocity crimes has...
Updated: June 10, 2022
November 8, 2019... Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism, and the parallel US-driven militarism in Muslim countries across the globe, have created a political and legal framework to alienate and stigmatize Muslim...
October 2, 2020... A “progressive” Jewish organization that calls attention to such issues, Bend the Arc fails to make the connection with Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, also genocide as defined by the Center...
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
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