A case challenging warrantless surveillance by the NSA
Updated: September 8, 2021
CCR Board President Jules Lobel will speak about the relationship between the legal and political struggle against solitary confinement in California at an event with Legal Services for Prisoners...
Updated: July 30, 2014
November 21, 2019... In 2013, a federal judge ruled the policing tactic violated constitutional rights and amounted to “indirect racial profiling,” as police were subjecting people of color to unnecessary stops over...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join a panel of legal experts to discuss the recent travel restrictions on travelers from Muslim-majority countries. The discussion will also include: Faiza Patel...
Updated: April 25, 2017
by Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that...
Updated: June 20, 2011
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
July 10, 2018“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post on May 12, 2010. May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that...
Updated: June 23, 2010
December 1, 2021...In recent months, the same site has been targeted by Greenfield Louisiana LLC for a grain terminal along the Mississippi River. The Banners, who live and work in the neighborhood, also lead a...
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