Rachel Meeropol is a Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on prisoners’ rights, Muslim profiling,...
Please join the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) and Human Rights Watch for a webinar on Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court (ICC) featuring Center for...
Updated: April 9, 2020
May 14, 2018Nakba Day: This Tuesday will mark 70 years of the Nakba, or the catastrophe, commemorating the forced displacement of Palestinians by the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. It has also...
In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as "...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 18, 2017More Actions to Support Local Efforts to Stop the BBP in Louisiana Last week, CCR took two more steps to support Louisiana activists and communities fighting to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP)...
October 14, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: The Center for Constitutional Rights...
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In...
This report released by the Center for Constitutional Rights includes the newest and most comprehensive numbers and lists of detainee status by nationality. The three simple steps are: 1) send those...
Updated: January 11, 2010
September 27, 2021Twenty years after the U.S. declared its “War on Terror,” civil rights lawyers and advocates sent the Biden administration a memorandum covering a range of federal policies and programs,
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