Migrant Justice Leaders at Risk of Deportation for Engaging in Protected First Amendment Activity November 14, 2018, Burlington, VT – Today, Vermont-based Migrant Justice filed a lawsuit in federal...
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as "...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Today, December 8, 2005, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Constitutional Rights condemned what it views as a campaign of harassment and political persecution of former members of the Black Panther...
Come work with other fierce social justice warriors! From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention at Guantánamo, the Center for...
Updated: October 18, 2016
October 15, 2018Sunday marked the third anniversary of the landmark settlement agreement in Ashker v. California , the class action lawsuit that ended indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons. We have...
May 27, 2009, New York – In response to both the California Supreme Court ruling supporting Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and the United States Supreme Court ruling...
Additions diversify board in lawyering, journalism, and grantmaking May 14, 2018, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is pleased to announce the addition of four members to its...
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured...
On April 13, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, and eleven other organizations in sending a letter to 280 universities asking officials to take action to protect free speech in...
Updated: April 20, 2018
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