November 8, 2013, New York – In response to an appeal filed today by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, seeking to overturn his conviction before a military commission, the Center for...
April 4, 2013, New York – This morning, activist Daniel McGowan was picked up from the halfway house where he has been residing and taken into custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in...
October 5, 2017, New York – In response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ memo on Department of Justice employment protections for transgender people, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
The intensification of anti-immigrant policies openly exposes the extreme discriminatory drift of the U.S. government. FIDH and the Center for Constitutional Rights warn the Trump administration that...
by Vincent Warren, Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and...
Updated: November 6, 2014
“We support the ICC in its pursuit of those who've perpetrated war crimes. We see no reason to support deferral [of the indictment] at this time.” — Ben Chang, Spokesman for President Obama's...
No Regard for Human Life D.C. Court Rules That U.S. Officials Can Torture and Murder “Enemy Combatants,” Cover It Up, and Get Away With It, Closing Door to Families of Men Who Died at...
Updated: October 6, 2010
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights case White Hat v. Landry , Anne White Hat—a Sicangu, Lakota Water Protector based in...
Updated: September 19, 2022
Today saw the long awaited release of a report by the CIA's Office of Inspector General (the agency's internal watchdog) investigating the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (...
On December 4-6, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights presented argument before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on behalf of two men detained at Guantánamo, urging the...
Updated: March 2, 2020
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