July 22, 2021...Sixteen protestors and a journalist who were charged with felonies in 2018 in the midst of protests and opposition to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in South Louisiana have been acquitted, the Center...
January 20, 2023... Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for example, spoke of an incident in September when one of his clients was hospitalized, telling the IACHR that the authorities “have no long-...
August 2, 2023...In response to Bakhouch’s ongoing detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights published an open letter, signed by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty...
The Center for Constitional Rights seeks damages from the United States government pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”) on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil. The adminstrative claim describes...
Updated: July 10, 2025
May 22, 2017Illustration by John Ritter, courtesy Harper’s This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out...
March 14, 2013, New York – In response to statements by JTF-GTMO calling reports of a mass hunger strike at Guantánamo “falsehoods” and in light of growing concerns over the...
July 11, 2012, New York – In response to today’s announcement that a former al-Qaeda member has been released from Guantanamo to Sudan, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director...
November 10, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) welcomed the U.S. Department of the Treasury order to sanction the former President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank in defense of the Alien Tort...
Miko Peled will be joined by Noor Elashi to discusses the case of the Holy Land Foundation Five, presenting a terrifying picture of governmental over-reach in post-9/11 America. Peled is releasing...
Updated: January 29, 2018
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