August 2, 2016Last week, CCR learned that Engine 234 in Crown Heights, the fire company of Paul Washington, former President of the Vulcan Society , the fraternal organization of Black firefighters in the FDNY, a...
On April 19, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights and No More Deaths jointly filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Border...
Updated: November 15, 2024
The Center for Constitional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The adminstrative claim describes...
Updated: July 10, 2025
September 13, 2021It was one of those unseasonably warm winter days that makes you fear for the future of the planet. Three lawyers were sitting at a conference table in the lower Manhattan offices of the Center for...
March 14, 2013, New York – In response to statements by JTF-GTMO calling reports of a mass hunger strike at Guantánamo “falsehoods” and in light of growing concerns over the...
November 10, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) welcomed the U.S. Department of the Treasury order to sanction the former President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 185th Period of...
Updated: October 21, 2022
Prof. Franke Will No Longer Teach at Columbia Law School, Stemming from her Defense of Palestinian Students Jan 10, 2025, New York – In response to the end of Professor Katherine Franke’s 25-year...
January 10, 2017...Pointing to the human rights abuses that occurred on his watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which has led the legal battle against Guantánamo and represents a number of its...
January 31, 2018...But the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a federal court brief this month seeking the release of 11 Gitmo detainees, said Mr. Trump ’s executive order “is not the last word.” “It is...
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