UPDATE: Vatican statement says "The Holy See does, however, regret to see in some points of the Concluding Observations an attempt to interfere with Catholic Church teaching on the dignity of...
August 6, 2014, New York – Today, the City of New York and plaintiffs jointly filed a motion with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to withdraw the City’s appeal of Floyd v. City of New...
February 4, 2022, New York – Today the government made public that Mohammed al-Qahtani has been cleared for transfer from the prison at Guantánamo where he has been detained without fair process for...
Updated: December 17, 2010
Black August began in the 1970s to mark the assassination of incarcerated political prisoners like the revolutionary organizer and writer George Jackson during a prison rebellion in California. Black...
Updated: September 30, 2024
February 19, 2009, New York – Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , issued a statement today in response to yesterday’s New York Post...
October 14, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: The Center for Constitutional Rights...
Ruling extends landmark settlement agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California February 3, 2022, Oakland, CA ‒ A federal judge ruled yesterday that the California Department of...
March 29, 2017The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and of Association had some strong words for the U.S. Congress during his testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission last Tuesday. Speaking...
Dismayed by Hypocrisy of Lawmakers in Congressional Progressive Caucus July 23, 2019, New York, Washington, D.C. – In response to the passage of House Resolution 246, the Center for Constitutional...
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