CCR joined the National Lawyers Guild, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, National Students for Justice in Palestine, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in...
Updated: November 20, 2014
May 24, 20011, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking immediate release of documents that the United States...
April 16, 2009, New York – In response to President Obama’s decision to guarantee immunity to CIA officials who carried out the drowning torture known as waterboarding, which his attorney...
Sanchez-Espinosa v. Reagan is a case that challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua. In May 1984, while the International Court of Justice was issuing a...
Updated: July 31, 2018
April 23, 2008, New York and Washington, DC — The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of...
June 7, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Experiments in Torture:...
February 16, 2021, San Francisco – A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third...
On June 12, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights and a coalition of organizations sent a letter to New York legislative leadership urging them to act on legislation to combat targeting and...
Updated: June 18, 2019
April 25, 2017Arkansas’ horror show continued last night with the first double execution carried out in the state since September 1999, of Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Williams. [1] No state had performed a double...
March 26, 2018CCR and Color of Change to DHS: Release the #RacePaper [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, CCR, Color of Change, and the Kramer Law Clinic sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to...
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