CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will speak on a 3:30 p.m. panel on May 2nd titled, "Legacies of the Incarceration in Surveillance & Policing of U.S. Communities of Color." The panel will...
Updated: April 17, 2014
Katherine Acey, New York, served as the Executive Director of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for twenty-three years (1987 – 2010). Under her stewardship Astraea established the nation's first...
Center for Constitutional Rights Says President Lacks Authority to Detain Prisoner November 30, 2016, Washington – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the...
April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
Center for Constitutional Rights, Garzón Demand Information From Attorney General Holder Regarding Status of Criminal Investigation of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in U.S. October 11, 2012,...
Updated: October 11, 2012
This Thursday, for the first time ever, the Vatican will be questioned about its record on child sexual violence by an international body. SNAP and CCR will be there and are hosting a reportback via...
Updated: January 15, 2014
October 21, 2016To mark the 23rd of the month, this Sunday, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to...
Camilo E. Mejia is a former staff sergeant with the Florida National Guard who, in 2004, after over eight years of military service and a five-month tour in ar-Ramadi in southern Iraq, became the...
Updated: March 8, 2010
The Center for Constitutional Rights would not be able to fight for justice without the help of its supporters. We are extremely grateful for the loyalty and generosity our donors have shown over the...
Updated: December 5, 2025
September 18, 2020, New York – Even as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has repeatedly sought emergency funding and threatened to furlough its employees in recent months, new...
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