On May 17th, people around the world will mark the 100th day of the current hunger strike at Guantánamo and over 11 years of indefinite detention without charge or trial by calling on...
Updated: May 16, 2013
Join CCR Monday, February 10th (please note date change) for a vigil outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan. This is the first monthly vigil organized by a critical new...
Updated: February 10, 2014
Laura Flanders Journalist and host of GRITtv Chris Hedges Senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times Sister Diana Ortiz Survivor of torture,...
Updated: June 2, 2009
Following the United States government’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the Biden Administration announced it would freeze over $7 billion held in the...
Updated: August 28, 2025
On July 26, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released, "Stop and Frisk The Human Impact: The Stories Behind the Numbers, the Effects on our Communities," a report documenting the...
Updated: November 2, 2017
July 30, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in support of the launch of the Guantanamo Justice Center , a new Geneva-based nongovernmental...
Vigil at the Supreme Court 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m . Join Witness Against Torture for a vigil in support of the human and constitutional rights of the men held at Guantanamo before and during the oral...
Updated: November 30, 2007
December 9, 2008, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued that high-level government officials must be held accountable for sending Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar to...
April 2, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, in a case seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the torture and other serious mistreatment of three French citizens formerly detained at...
The Center for Constitutional Rights thanks MoveOn.org and its membership for their incredible outpouring of support, and the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Open Society Institute for stepping into...
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