A federal appeals court in New York will take the unusual step of rehearing Maher Arar's case which it decided in June. Mr. Arar is a CCR client who was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002, flown to...
The U.N.'s torture investigator said Thursday that European countries should take in those Guantanamo inmates who cannot be sent home when the U.S.-run prison closes...
January 9, 2008, New York, NY – Today, Haitian former paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant rejected a plea bargain that would have given him a prison sentence of three to nine years in a...
September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...
... This is part of what has been called the “CIA torture programme” – a significant element of the US’ fight against terrorism. This is so big, that we cannot get into details here. But FIDH, the...
May 2, 2016, San Diego – This morning in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Joseph Buddenberg was sentenced to two years in federal prison for Conspiracy to Violate the...
Djamel Ameziane was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2013. Like the rest of the detainees there, he was never charged with a crime or given a trial, and according to the Center for...
President-elect Obama should be applauded for reiterating his promise to close the prison camp at Guantánamo. It has been a national embarrassment and a symbol of everything the Bush administration...
Dominic Renfrey is the Campaign and Movement Infrastructure Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Dominic comes to the organization as a specialist in transnational and local movement...
...Maria LaHood, deputy legal director at The Centre for Constitutional Rights, which represented the students, said: “the students’ support for Palestinian rights and their demand to freely express...
