September 2008"Torture does not begin in some remote, dark, subterranean cell, where prisoners are hooded and interrogators are masked. Torture emerges from fear clouding vision and it begins on paper, with...
October 22, 2016In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
October 21, 2016A lawsuit into a military contractor for their role in the torture at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib, was reinstated Friday, with the court rejecting arguments from the contractors that its behavior...
March 2009In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can move ahead with their lawsuit against...
January 10, 2013, New York – In response to today’s announcement that Zero Dark Thirty has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Center for Constitutional Rights...
The Peace and Justice Task Force Invites you to a Panel Discussion: U.S.-sponsored Torture, Prisoners’ Rights, and Survivor Care Four distinguished panelists...
Updated: October 8, 2008
On November 21, 2016, CCR joined a coalition letter to President Obama urging him to take action to rescind the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System (NSEERS) regulatory framework...
Updated: December 21, 2016
September 6, 2022President Biden froze the funds after the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
October 27, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York (CAIR-NY), and Educators for Civil Liberties, and Muslim...
Please join us Thursday, November 11, 2010 for an exciting and informative panel on “Experiments in Social Isolation: Communications Management Units and the Expansion of Unconstitutional...
Updated: November 10, 2010
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