Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi currently lives in Pakistan with his wife and four children and works as a supervisor at a construction company. Ahmer is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a lawsuit filed in 2002...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...
A police accountability action in honor of the mothers and family members of victims of NYPD killings. Hosted by families of people killed by the NYPD and the Justice Committee , "Mothers Cry...
Updated: May 6, 2013
April 24, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the decision of a federal court judge to dismiss a lawsuit against high-level Bush administration officials for...
August 2, 2023...In a July 27 letter to Mayorkas, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Brennan Center for Justice, and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
July 13, 2015... This morning, like every day for the last eight-plus years, guards will come to Tariq’s cell, place him in handcuffs and leg irons, and bring him to medics. Perhaps as you read this, he will be...
On July 13, 2015, Sandra Bland died while in police custody in Waller County, Texas. On July 13, 2016, on the one-year anniversary of her tragic death, The Dream Unfinished will hold a concert to...
Updated: June 22, 2016
September 27, 2017The Trump administration’s latest iteration of the Muslim ban, announced on Sunday night, is yet another failed attempt to repackage a white supremacist policy that is unconstitutional and in...
November 3, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York launching a website on the Joint Remedial Process that...
December 4, 2009, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued a case challenging Congress’ unconstitutional de-funding of the Association of Community...
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