When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Join us on Friday, January 12, from 10 - 11:30 a.m. EST / 4 - 5:30 p.m. Central European Time for an in-person and virtual briefing exploring the potential implications of South Africa’s case...
Updated: January 11, 2024
October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
Los Angeles - In a decision received today, Los Angeles Immigration Judge Bruce J. Einhorn ordered an end to deportation proceedings against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, members of the “Los...
In response to recent attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar's stance on Palestinian human rights, the Center for constitutional Rights issued the following statement of solidarity: Since 1966, the...
CCR is proud to join the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program to mark a decade of the U.S.-led war in Iraq with speakers from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and Iraq...
Updated: June 19, 2013
A citizens' hearing to confront repression of human rights and civil liberties by the criminal justice system Saturday, July 16, 2011 3-6 PM Reception: 2:30 PM Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural...
Updated: July 15, 2011
Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has signed on as amicus curiae to support non-citizens seeking relief from immigration...
Updated: August 5, 2008
Charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga. The suit pioneered the application of a previously little-used 1789 federal statute, the Alien...
Updated: January 3, 2019
This is a repost of a press release by the US Human Rights Network of which the Center for Constitutional Rights is a member. Atlanta, May 29, 2009 - In response to the Federal Emergency Management...
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