June 11, 2012, New York – Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari to the cases of seven Guantánamo detainees who had petitioned the Court for review of...
By ALAN COWELL Published: December 20, 2013 LONDON — After years of argument that has drawn ferocious condemnation from outsiders like President Obama, the Ugandan Parliament approved legislation on...
A Yemeni prisoner detained for over 13 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was reportedly held there partly as a result of mistaken identity. U.S. officials determined that Mustafa al-...
A federal judge has preliminarily approved New York City's agreement to pay $9.5 million in legal fees to the attorneys that represented black firefighters in a long-running discrimination case...
President Obama, hoping to finally meet his 2008 campaign pledge, sent Congress a plan Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer up to 60 terrorism suspects to a yet unnamed U.S. prison...
The court-appointed monitor of NYPD stop-and-frisk practices has officially filed a new reporting form that encourages officers to write a narrative of the reasons for a stop instead of relying on...
A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors...
Back in July, racial equity advocacy group Color of Change partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information related to the...
City Winery CEO Michael Dorf hosted a Passover Seder at Laugh Boston at the Westin Boston Waterfront on Sunday night. Among the many guests were stand-up comedian Joel Chasnoff , Israeli singer-...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)—a plaintiff in the case that wound up deeming stop-and-frisk unconstitutional—issued a press release stating that though "some progress has been made,"...
