This event will address the global crackdown on civil society space and the resulting challenges in protecting fundamental rights and freedoms. Featuring CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy in conversation...
Updated: February 15, 2018
January 2007Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Arar and offers a $10.5M compensation package for the extreme psychological and emotional torture he sustained for 10 months in a Syrian prison.
July 2010How human rights advocates investigating torture ended up snooping on the CIA—and in hot water with the feds.
May 15, 2013 -- Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. urging him to file a motion is support of compassionate release...
Updated: August 12, 2013
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join the final panel of this two-day conference organized by the Bernstein Center at NYU Law School. The panel title is "Lessons to Confront Closure at Home" and...
Updated: March 31, 2017
Cable 09MADRID440 View and download this entire cable here 09MADRID440 “Garzón Opens Second Investigation Into Alleged U.S. Torture of Terrorism Detainees.” Date of cable: May 5,...
Updated: December 18, 2010
December 9, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantanamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal cases...
March 7, 2022This Women’s History Month, we are disrupting oppressive white and cisgender narratives about womanhood
Cable 09MADRID347 View and download this entire cable here 09MADRID347 “Spain: Prosecutor Weighs GTMO Criminal Case vs. Former USG [U.S. Government] Officials.” Date of cable: April 1,...
Updated: December 18, 2010
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Legal Aid Society, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for our case, Make the Road New York...
Updated: February 27, 2020
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