While the leadership of the Democratic Party remains silent on Obama's refusal to hold torturers accountable, activists are demanding a special prosecutor and calling on Congress to impeach Jay Bybee...
Sufyian Barhoumi is an Algerian citizen in his late 40s, born and raised in Algiers, where his mother still lives and his late father practiced law. He was held at Guantánamo from June 2002 until...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has joined the Uncovering the Truth Campaign, a series of coordinated events and actions across the nation along with the filing of a federal lawsuit. The...
Hearing Is Second Under Trump February 28, 2017, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that...
Civil and Human Rights groups join with Indigenous, Racial, Palestinian, and Environmental Justice activists to condemn ALEC for attacking people of color and the climate August 15, 2019 Today, as...
A complaint filed against Rumsfeld asking a German federal prosecutor to begin an investigation and eventually a criminal prosecution will inevitably tie him to allegations of U.S. warranted torture...
What: "Guantanamo Forever?" -- A discussion featuring CCR Legal Director Bill Quigley. When: 7:30pm Sponsored by Witness Against Torture and Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
On episode 39 of the Activist Files , Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Rafaela Uribe talks with Heena Sharma and Katrina Hamann-Azanov , two members of the Free Ashley Campaign...
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Karina Murrieta is a Senior Donor Relations Officer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works with the Development Director and Deputy Director of Development to support the department’s...
