This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 24, 2010. US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to...
Updated: June 3, 2010
June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
Facing Increasing Danger, Ashley Diamond Demands Transfer Out of Male Prison November 23, 2021, Macon, GA – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman, submitted new evidence to the court...
December 26, 2019...We participated in the hearing on behalf of several U.S. torture victims who, for nearly 15 years, have been seeking justice and accountability for serious harms they suffered on the territories...
August 18, 2017 New York, NY — In response to news of White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon's departure, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement: Justice is a...
Join us on Wednesday, October 9th at 1:00 pm for an important hearing on the use of solitary confinement in California prisons before the California Assembly Public Safety Committee in Sacramento...
Updated: October 8, 2013
Tariq Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by his loving...
Updated: October 28, 2016
Shocking new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA black site, then at Guantánamo. Majid...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Seattle National Lawyers Guild and the American Constitution Society are pleased to present a CLE program in Constitutional Law: Whose Right? Corporations, People and the 1st Amendment October 29...
Updated: October 21, 2010
April 14, 2021, New York – In response to President Biden’s announcement that all U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following...
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