Baher Azmy , Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director, will join other speakers at this rally where NYC educators, students, workers, and allies will rally in defense of higher education,...
Updated: April 16, 2025
by Omar Farah, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Jan 25, 2013 Adnan Latif and Mohammed al-Hamiri arrived at Guantánamo through strikingly similar twists of fate. Adnan...
Updated: October 9, 2015
From analysis and commentary by our experts to media coverage of our cases and reactions to breaking news stories, CCR is in the news and making news.
Updated: May 5, 2015
Join us on May 18 for oral arguments on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of incarcerated people held...
Updated: May 18, 2023
Please join CCR for oral arguments on Wednesday, December 19 th at 9:30 AM PST in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump , a federal lawsuit brought with the American Civil Liberties Union and the...
Updated: December 18, 2018
In the wake of the recent attempted attack on Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253, several elected officials have renewed their politicized claims that closing the prison at Guantánamo...
July 16, 2015The killing of Eric Garner by a police officer using a chokehold last year sparked protests around the country and led rappers to hold memorial concerts in Staten Island, where he was killed, and as...
June 20, 2016“Where were you on March 20, 2003?,” Aaron Hughes , an Iraq War vet and artist, asks our group. We’re sitting on the floor around a Persian rug while Aaron brews a large pot of fragrant Alwazah tea...
June 20, 2017Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
Participatory artist Lizania Cruz , whose most recent art projects focus on immigration, joins Chandra M. Hayslett , Center for Constitutional Rights’ communications director, on The Activist Files...
Updated: February 26, 2019
Pages
