Friday, March 20 3:15-4:15 PM Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing: Accountability for Violations of Human Rights in the United States Public Hearing held at:...
New York, June 30, 2008 – Four former Abu Ghraib detainees who were wrongly imprisoned, tortured and later released without charge are suing two U.S. military contractor corporations and three...
...Today marks 22 years since the first set of detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. military base in Cuba. The camp, in the George W. Bush administration’s telling, fell outside of the normal...
January 29, 2010, Brussels and New York – At the start of the E.U.-U.S. Consultations on Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Constitutional...
By Alexis Agathocleous and Rachel Meeropol, senior attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights When Todd Ashker was transferred to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California's Pelican Bay...
Big win for activists and environmental groups: racketeering lawsuit dismissed [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, a federal judge dismissed a sprawling racketeering lawsuit filed against...
December 23, 2020, New York – In response to Uganda’s detention of four human rights defenders, including attorney Nicholas Opiyo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
On February 27, 2006, The first violation of the McCain torture amendment was alleged in federal court in an emergency injunction to end further torture of Guantánamo detainees. The court made public...
Please Join us for a critical panel discussion as we enter the 10 th year of the prison at Guantánamo When: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM What: Outside the Law: Stories from...
Detainees at the U.S. Military Prison in Guantánamo will finally get their day in court on May 27 – Superior Court, in Washington DC, when 35 Americans from cities and towns across the country will...
