On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
Updated: May 12, 2016
March 22, 2018... On the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the U.S. renewed its call for the U.S. to pay war reparations to the people of Iraq. This is one...
February 2008Article highlighting the reality that five of the six Guantanamo detainees facing the death penalty on charges of terrorism are still without legal representation for their trials in the military...
June 19, 2017More than 15 years after allowing sweeping post-9/11 detentions, the government officials who implemented the policies are off the hook. Top officials in the Bush administration, including former...
CCR will be sponsoring a third screening of "THE END OF AMERICA" on December 14, 2008 at 8:10 at the IFC Center . "THE END OF AMERICA" is a feature-length documentary based on...
Updated: December 12, 2008
November 2009US “extraordinary rendition” was essentially put on trial for the first time - in Italy - and this week the court rendered a guilty verdict. This is the second major decision to come down this week...
March 2012The Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit against Scott Lively, a pastor from Springfield, Mass., who went to Uganda and visited with policymakers there in the months before the "Kill the...
January 18, 2018Three environmental groups that are fighting a proposed 162-mile pipeline across southern Louisiana have petitioned a state court to order the pipeline company to release records about land it...
November 15, 2018...A few of the landowners, represented by lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper disagree. They claim it's unconstitutional for a private company to use...
September 11, 2017Time moves slowly for the five men accused of the 9/11 attacks . Sixteen years after the World Trade Center was toppled, the case against the alleged mastermind and his co-plotters looks set to drag...
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