April 2014The city has disbanded an New York City Police Department surveillance division created to spy on Muslim communities. The Demographics Unit kept tabs on Muslims by having plainclothes officers...
In the small community of Newburgh, New York a mysterious businessman infiltrates a local mosque supposedly looking to cultivate business associates. He is in fact working as an informant for the FBI...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Please join CCR on Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am (CST) in Chicago for oral arguments in U.S. v. Johnson , an appeal from the federal prosecution of two animal rights activists under the Animal...
Updated: September 16, 2016
April 16, 2017A pilot program for police officers to begin wearing body cameras this month cleared a major hurdle when it was approved last week by the federal monitor overseeing changes to the New York Police...
August 15, 2017The adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it." Indeed, this is the very predicament in which the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) could...
September 7, 2017The Vatican missed a Sept. 1 deadline to submit to the United Nations a report, detailing the steps it has taken to protect children from sexual violence, the Survivors Network of those Abused by...
June 1, 2023...In 2012, my organization, that was shut down last year in August by the government, Sexual Minorities Uganda, together with partners, Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR , based in New York, we...
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
April 2014Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
August 2007Newly released sections of a Canadian inquiry report reveal that neither the Syrian government nor the FBI believed Arar was a threat.
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