The ELS along with SALDF and NLG present a screening of the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, 2012. When: March 29...
Updated: March 20, 2012
Please join CCR at International Law Weekend for a panel discussion on the history of solitary confinement in the United States. This panel will feature CCR Staff Attorney Alexis Agathacleous, and...
Updated: October 24, 2012
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will speak at a symposium at Michigan State University College of Law on the responses of the legal system to U.S. torture. The event will feature...
Updated: February 26, 2016
September 22, 2017, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal court ruled that three Iraqi individuals formerly detained at the infamous “hard site” at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were subjected...
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
January 12, 2024...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...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on Wednesday, January 24, from 6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) / 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m...
Updated: January 23, 2024
In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
August 17, 2012, New York – In response today’s ruling by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which excluded as untested and...
June 12, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel issued the statement below responding to published accounts that the United States Department of...
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