Arguments will be held on May 12th on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security...
Updated: May 7, 2020
Four months after 9/11, on January 11, 2002, the U.S. military flew 20 prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More would soon follow, as would allegations...
Updated: January 11, 2010
September 10, 2021...Baher, what about you? Have you experienced those same kinds of things you heard Farhana talking about? Baher Azmy, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights: "I was in New York that day...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
Updated: June 24, 2015
Legislature passed 2018 critical infrastructure amendment at behest of oil and gas industry to restrict pipeline protests, plaintiffs say February 24, 2025, New Orleans – Today before the Fifth...
Join us in person as a community to celebrate the publication of the Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations book. This launch, like the book, weaves together artwork, poetry, legal...
Updated: July 11, 2022
We write on the occasion of the 10th emergency special session of the UN General Assembly under the resolution 377A(V), "Uniting for Peace", related to the grave human rights violations and man-made...
Updated: October 4, 2024
Updated: November 26, 2008
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Maria LaHood will participate in a panel discussion at the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) 2013 Convention. After more than ten years of occupations, drone strikes,...
Updated: July 25, 2013
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will both join distinguished panels of legal experts as part of a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar with...
Updated: March 1, 2017
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