January 11th, 2010 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Hall at St. Ignatius Loyola Church (Park Avenue and 84th Street in Manhattan) Gathering as a People of Light and Hope: Casting Out The Darkness of...
Updated: January 8, 2010
June 21, 2010, Washington and New York – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to criminalize speech in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge the Patriot Act before...
June 6, 2016, New York – Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order creating a blacklist of companies and other organizations abiding by boycott or divestment campaigns...
Please join us on Thursday, February 12th for oral arguments in Ashker v. Brown , a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in...
Updated: February 2, 2015
July 8, 2015Two years have passed since people confined in California's Pelican Bay State Prison initiated a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison's "security housing unit,"...
October 24, 2007, Washington, DC – According to press reports, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted during a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing today that the U.S. government...
On Friday, January 18, the government made public a motion filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Majid Khan, a former CIA ghost detainee now held at Guantanamo. The motion...
The Darkest Corner , authored by the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), documents a secretive form of...
Updated: August 31, 2021
January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
Join CCR in Washington, D.C. to mark the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Together, human rights activists, torture survivors, Guantanamo attorneys, 9/11...
Updated: December 20, 2017
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