October 31, 2016This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
August 30, 2021Tomorrow! We’re arguing against the Trump-era policy that turns back asylum seekers Tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, we’ll be arguing before U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern...
October 15, 2014, New York – Today, attorneys in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) landmark class action stop-and-frisk lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York , urged a three-judge panel...
November 16, 2015A few months ago, we told you about a troubling under-the-radar ruling in Munoz Santos v. Thomas , a case challenging the extradition of Jose Munoz Santos, a Mexican national, based on the testimony...
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May...
Updated: May 3, 2012
June 27, 2016Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...
CCR joined 238 national and state immigration and civil human rights organizations, law offices, educational institutions, elected officials, and faith-based groups in signing this letter to...
Updated: September 27, 2017
August 10, 2020Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
CCR, Palestine Legal, and 20 other rights organizations put out a call on December 9, 2016, International Human Rights Defenders Day, to demand protection for and an end to threats against,...
Updated: March 15, 2017
On November 21, 2016, CCR joined a coalition letter to President Obama urging him to take action to rescind the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System (NSEERS) regulatory framework...
Updated: December 21, 2016
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