Nearly 20 years after torture scandal broke, Iraqis continue fight for justice; 15-year quest for day in court one step closer to trial August 1, 2023, Alexandria, VA – A federal judge has rejected...
February 26, 201815 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability Nearly 15 years after the horrific abuses at the Abu Ghraib "hard site" prison in Iraq came to light, a...
May 31, 2012, Oakland – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Donkeysaddle Projects, Tayba Foundation, and Missouri Prison Reform for a virtual discussion about the intersection of Islamophobia and anti-...
Updated: April 6, 2024
September 27, 2012 – In response to the European Court of Human Rights’s (ECtHR) ruling in Babar Ahmad and others v. The United Kingdom earlier this week, which allows five men held in...
January 11, 2024, marks 22 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison has been open. Thirty Muslim men remain detained, including 16 who have been cleared for release. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: December 26, 2023
January 6, 2022While no one can replace him, we should all strive to live up to his example
As lawyers and advocates who are accountable to the intergenerational Black freedom struggle, the Center for Constitutional Rights has for Black people to reject the inhumanity of human hierarchy,...
Updated: February 18, 2022
December 12, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the European Parliament adopted an amendment that calls for the resettlement in European countries of Guantánamo detainees who cannot return to their home...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
Updated: February 29, 2024
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