April 25, 2019... Just this week, Israel ordered Human Rights Watch’s investigator in Israel, Omar Shakir, to leave the country by May 1st. In response, the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ) said, “The...
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
Five Years After Landmark Settlement, Violations Continue September 26, 2020, Palo Alto – Men who spent decades in solitary confinement in California prisons are charging that the California...
Zafar Arslan (f/k/a Adel Noori) It was against this backdrop that Mr. Arslan made the difficult decision to leave his homeland to escape the severe religious and political persecution he had endured...
Updated: January 14, 2010
March 8, 2016The Israeli government is seeking immunity for former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak in a civil lawsuit filed last October by the parents of Furkan Doğan , an American teenager killed on May...
November 11, 2019Earlier this year in June, Dr. Scott Warren walked away from the Tucson federal courthouse a free man. The DOJ had charged him with harboring, arguing that he deserved up to twenty years in prison...
March 20, 2024...The UK is facing legal pressure to reverse its position on weapons exports to Israel while in the US, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) NGO is appealing its case against the president,...
Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
March 13, 2018A Washington state court on Friday moved to end a lengthy legal campaign against former board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to support a boycott of Israeli goods. “It’s a huge...
September 1, 2015The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
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