September 26, 2013, Oakland – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to grant class action status to a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary...
February 5, 2013, New York – In response to the release of a Justice Department white paper titled, “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior...
September 28, 2020Justice for Breonna Taylor requires the transformation of the scoeity and system that killed her [caption align="right"] [/caption] In response to the announcement that only one of the officers...
Join us for an important debate and discussion: What: “U.S. Detention Policies a Decade After 9/11: Two Opposing Perspectives on Security.” Who: Pardiss Kebriaei (CCR attorney who has...
Updated: March 21, 2011
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Albany Law School for a virtual panel discussion to celebrate the launch of the new book, Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency...
Updated: March 5, 2021
October 3, 2017"America is the friend of all Iraqi people." This was the sign put up at Abu Ghraib prison—one that replaced Saddam's portrait when the US took it over as part of the war on terror. It was Abu Ghraib...
“You do not belong here on earth!” people yell at the filmmaker and crew of Troublers , a film by Young Lee that tells the chilling story of repression LGBTQI community members face in South Korea...
Updated: June 27, 2016
Please join CCR for oral arguments in Hassan v. the City of New York on Tuesday, January 13th at 10:00 am in Philadelphia, PA. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over whether...
Updated: December 19, 2014
February 28, 2019US District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit brought by three former inmates of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq against military contractor CACI Premier Technology to proceed. The case...
November 3, 2017The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court is seeking approval to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan , including possible torture by US forces and the CIA. If...
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