May 15, 2024...The Banner twins are the founders of The Descendants Project, a nonprofit that fights for historic and cultural preservation for descendants of enslaved people. It was through their nonprofit that...
Federal appeals court weighs bid by California corrections department to remove oversight, end accountability May 18, 2023, San Diego – Today, a class of incarcerated people urged the Ninth Circuit...
November 23, 2015Palestinian human rights groups delivered new evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to an international prosecutor Monday. The new evidence was handed to International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Following Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, 9/11 families sought assets that judge rules belongs to sovereign state to satisfy Taliban debts, but doing so would recognize Taliban as “government” of...
Kayla Vinson (she/her) is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a member of the Southern Regional Office, and her work focuses on supporting liberatory movements and...
December 2008In response to Attorney General Mukasey's statements that Bush administration officials who approved the use of torture shouldn’t be prosecuted and needn’t be pardoned because they all reasonably...
Article II: Torture and Extraordinary Rendition. Participants include Michael Ratner and Vincent Warren of the Center of Constitutional Rights, Jonathan Hafetz, journalist Tara McKelvey, Carol...
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August 13, 2018Yemeni man granted Muslim Ban waiver, reunites with family in U.S. after 17 years [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, after 17 years, Ali Ahmad, a Yemeni man CCR profiled in our report on...
October 16, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
September 2007A Guantanamo detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, says he made false statements after being tortured.
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