D.J.C.V. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") is a habeas corpus case on behalf of D.J.C.V., a two-year old child, and his father, Mr. C., who are asylum seekers from Honduras. They...
Updated: June 27, 2023
October 2, 2015Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall ) It was during the escalating violence of Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s that our client Djamel Ameziane left in search of a better life. He lived in...
November 26, 2015Today, fourteen American activists with the grassroots group Witness Against Torture are holding a vigil outside Guantánamo prison in a gesture of solidarity with the dozens of Muslim men who remain...
October 5, 2023...So far, the only lawsuits able to advance have targeted military contractors. Those cases, too, face considerable obstacles. One such case, Al Shimari et al. v. CACI , has been slowly making its...
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
September 11, 2020The post-9/11 era has defined nearly every aspect of the 21st century. Its most striking ideologies, laws, and policies -- boundless executive powers, a secret and global torture program, indefinite...
On August 19, 2021, the Cameroon American Council, #CameroonTPS Coalition, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to women members of Congress urging them to support a designation of...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Washington, November 1, 2012 – This morning CCR scored a major victory in our long running effort to hold private military contractors responsible for their role in the torture and war crimes...
Updated: December 20, 2012
Hundreds denied due process and held in abusive conditions as administration plans to send thousands more to infamous prison site July 29, 2025, New York – Civil rights groups today filed a Freedom...
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