Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman is a thirty-six year old ethnic Uighur who, until his release to Palau in October 2009, was wrongfully incarcerated in the Guantánamo Bay...
Updated: January 15, 2010
August 8, 2018, New York – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) maintains a database that classifies thousands of New Yorkers – 99 percent of whom are people of color – as members of local...
How to Sue the Klan is the story of how five Black women from Chattanooga used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a historic 1982 civil case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: February 16, 2024
August 28, 2009, WASHINGTON – 521 local and national organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, signed a letter delivered to President Obama on Aug. 25 demanding the...
January 27, 2023 – In response to the release of the video of Tyre Nichols’ murder by five Memphis police, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We join our community...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies on the April 15 online screening of Advocate (2019) and a post-...
Updated: April 9, 2020
May 2, 2018, New York – In response to news that the first detainee has been transferred out of Guantánamo under Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are...
February 9, 2012, New York, NY – In response to Tuesday’s reintroduction in the Ugandan parliament of a bill that would require the death penalty for consensual sex between persons of the...
Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program Law Enforcement Experts and Victims of S-Comm Conclude Program Should Be Ended August 16, 2011, New York and Washington – Today...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is deeply dismayed at the Obama Administration’s claim that it can continue military attacks on Libya without Congressional approval as...
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