January 20, 2023... Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for example, spoke of an incident in September when one of his clients was hospitalized, telling the IACHR that the authorities “have no long-...
August 2, 2023...In response to Bakhouch’s ongoing detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights published an open letter, signed by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty...
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
July 11, 2012, New York – In response to today’s announcement that a former al-Qaeda member has been released from Guantanamo to Sudan, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director...
Miko Peled will be joined by Noor Elashi to discusses the case of the Holy Land Foundation Five, presenting a terrifying picture of governmental over-reach in post-9/11 America. Peled is releasing...
Updated: January 29, 2018
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak on the opening plenary of the Animal Rights National Conference titled Activist Repression: Government and corporate repression of animal and...
Updated: June 28, 2013
July 11, 2016A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday. The Pentagon...
Please join CCR and allies across the country for a National Week of Resistance to renew our collective declaration of #NoMuslimBanEver. During this critical week, we must continue to raise our...
Updated: May 1, 2017
December 29, 2017...This is the rebuilding of Jim Crow Nation: "We will not allow this to become the new normal," reads a statement put out by the Center for Constitutional Rights. "Whatever the courts say, the...
August 28, 2018... The “Protect the Protest” task force announced Tuesday targets what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk...
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