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Updated: January 22, 2024
February 2015"What happened at the Abu Ghraib prison during the early days of the Iraq war is no secret: The whole world has seen the appalling photos . Detainees under American control were raped, beaten,...
June 2012The kill list makes a mockery of due process by circumventing judicial review, and turning the executive into judge, jury and executioner. Even worse, the strikes described in the Times article, in...
October 28, 2023...Racial profiling, police violence, mass incarceration and drone killings are among the wide array of abuses UN experts have raised at a review of US civil and political rights policies in Geneva...
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
September 4, 2020... Katherine Gallagher is a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She represents victims of both U.S. and Israeli war crimes. Katherine Gallagher: “The sanctions announced by Secretary of...
August 4, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which pushed for greater transparency in the court-martial, condemned the verdict. “The Espionage Act itself is a discredited relic of the WWI era,...
November 16, 2023...U.S. President Joe Biden urged Israel on Monday to protect Palestinians inside Al-Shifa. But the Center for Constitutional Rights, a U.S.-based civil liberties group, has argued that such...
On May 15, 2018, CCR sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing S.J. Res. 59, the 2018 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, also known as the "Corker-Kaine...
Updated: May 16, 2018
November 16, 2023...The complaint was filed in a federal court on Monday by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based civil liberties group, on behalf of the Palestinian human rights groups Defense for...
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