March 1, 2022... Over 13 years since he had been tortured, evidence finally emerged that al-Qahtani had severe mental health problems that pre-dated his capture, his torture, and the efforts by Al-Qaeda to...
Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: January 19, 2023
May 18, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) expressed profound concern over the University of Georgia School of Law’s decision to appoint former Deputy...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
Updated: March 1, 2019
June 6, 2015Anyone who had the time to read the summary of the 6,700-page report by Senate investigators on the federal government’s program of torturing detainees captured after the Sept. 11 attacks knew, or at...
November 10, 2017Djamel Ameziane wants his dignity back. The 50-year-old former prisoner says that's why he filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Canadian government, alleging it was complicit in his...
The Center for Constitutional Rights presents… LESS SAFE, LESS FREE “Prevention,” the “War on Terror,” and the Attack on the Rule of Law with authors DAVID COLE and JULES LOBEL Joined on the panel by...
Updated: November 5, 2007
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on December 7. The December vigil will focus on the case of the “Fort Dix Five”, one of the most...
Updated: December 2, 2015
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will speak on a 3:30 p.m. panel on May 2nd titled, "Legacies of the Incarceration in Surveillance & Policing of U.S. Communities of Color." The panel will...
Updated: April 17, 2014
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