May 7, 2018No reward for torture: #BlockHaspel as CIA Director Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a public confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel, Trump's pick for CIA director. No one, not...
April 22, 2016Who will hold Israel accountable? The answer, so far, is no one. But on this rare trip to the U.S., I am seeing signs that suggest the dam is breaking. The cracks in the dam are coming from civil...
April 18, 2019The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based group representing torture victims, denounced the decision as rewarding intimidation. “With its decision today, the International Criminal Court...
January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil...
September 13, 2021A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S. southern border.
August 7, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded today to a letter made public from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture to the American Psychological...
Join CCR staff attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, et al., for a discussion about Guantanamo Bay and the Conscience of Asian American Studies. Talking points include: Defending Detainees: Why, How,...
Updated: March 20, 2008
March 7, 2022, New York – Mohammed al-Qahtani, held at Guantánamo since 2002, arrived in Saudi Arabia today, where he will receive psychiatric care for schizophrenia that was exacerbated by...
New York and Washington, February 22, 2010 —New FOIA documents illustrate that key congressional members from both houses were briefed numerous times about the Central Intelligence Agency...
CCR's has published a new factsheet on NYPD Stop and Frisk Statistics from 2009 and 2010. Click here to access it . On September 9, 2008, the United States District Court in Manhattan ordered the New...
Updated: October 30, 2010
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