Harry Joseph is a resident of Louisiana and pastor of the 114-year-old Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. With a 95 percent African-American population, St. James shoulders...
Updated: May 22, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2020-9/2022. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging...
Updated: February 13, 2020
June 2007Libyan Guantanamo detainee cleared for release or transfer, fears he will be tortured if U.S. officials transfer him to Libya.
October 5, 2009, New York – Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed papers with the D.C. District Court challenging the government’s claim that no federal court has...
#Law4BlackLives is a national gathering of lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers who are committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. More than a meeting or a...
Updated: July 6, 2015
For the first time on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, a federal court will consider the potential parole of 17 innocent Uighur men who were falsely detained at Guantánamo Bay for over six long years. The...
Updated: October 3, 2008
February 2011Security worries on the ground in Switzerland, not fear of a torture complaint over waterboarding, led organizers to cancel former President George W. Bush's speech at a gala this week in a luxurious...
The U.S. government begins to allow torture victims like Majid Khan to discuss their accounts while in CIA custody...
Updated: June 16, 2015
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology,...
Updated: April 26, 2024
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights at The People's Forum for a screening of the documentary Powerlands , followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Ivey-Camille...
Updated: April 19, 2023
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