On International Human Rights Day, join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon for a roundtable discussion on the closure of Guantanamo. He will be joinned by Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Emilio Alvarez...
Updated: December 10, 2015
December 3, 2015KCRW Morning Edition The FBI and other agencies are monitoring hundreds of Americans suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State. Fifty-six have been arrested this year alone for sympathizing...
April 29, 2016In recent weeks, governors , mayors , major businesses , and entertainers have joined a boycott of North Carolina and Mississippi as a way of protesting new state laws that license discrimination...
May 15, 2016As Barack Obama looks to the end of his tenure as president and commander-in-chief, the prison camp he inherited at Guantánamo Bay remains one of his most frustrating challenges. He promised to close...
June 22, 2016Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say...
March 7, 2017...Noor Zafar, a lawyer with expertise in abusive immigration practices at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, New York, said the new executive order "is still a ban designed to keep Muslims out of...
November 28, 2017The FBI was deeply concerned "black supremacist extremists" would violently shut down the Republican and Democratic national conventions last year, according to a cache of bureau records. The records...
January 11, 2018Guantanamo’s symbolism has shifted fundamentally over the three presidential administrations that it has been used as an island prison. It’s worth reconsidering that history—and what it means in the...
May 8, 2019...Angelo Guisado, a New York-based civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said conservative people and communities tend to conflate the idea of security with the idea of...
May 24, 2019...“By turning so much of the land in this state into critical infrastructure, the average person can find themselves facing five years in prison for literally just being in the wrong place at the...
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