June 23, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement by Senior Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei in response to the release of the Department of...
Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port Au Prince police headquarters is...
Updated: January 29, 2010
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in Brooklyn, New York on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. to hear oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil...
Updated: March 3, 2011
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights to hear oral arguments on a motion to dismiss in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a CCR lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and...
Updated: March 15, 2018
January 11, 2021This is Sharqawi Al Hajj, a 47-year-old man from Yemen. He has been detained in Guantánamo for 17 years without charge. Guantánamo opened 19 years ago today. Not pictured are his five siblings in...
Immigrant rights attorneys will argue before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. PDT/1:00 p.m. EDT, urging the court to...
Updated: August 16, 2021
At Race of the Races: Privilege, Exclusion and Inequality among People of Color in the Law , CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah will join a distinguished panel titled, "State Violence Against Racially...
Updated: February 7, 2017
January 14, 2016, New York – In response to the news of the departure of Gen. John F. Kelly, who oversees Guantánamo prison, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We...
Composite statement: Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed All three men come from Tipton in West Midlands, United Kingdom a poor area with a small community of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin...
Updated: January 11, 2010
March 10, 2013, New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights and The American Civil Liberties Union issued the following statement in response to The New York Times article today detailing the U.S...
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