Kifah Jayyousi is a United States citizen who is married with five children and currently lives and works in Michigan. Kifah is a plaintiff in Aref v. Garland , a federal lawsuit filed in 2010...
Updated: October 14, 2021
July 11, 2016, New York – Today, the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Guantánamo detainee and Center for Constitutional Rights client Muhammadi Davliatov to Serbia. A native of...
The purpose of the FOIA request and lawsuit is to obtain information for the public about federal agencies' policies of imposing fines and monetary penalties on individuals, specifically immigrants...
Updated: January 21, 2026
Please join us on Thursday, February 12th for oral arguments in Ashker v. Brown , a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in...
Updated: February 2, 2015
July 8, 2015Two years have passed since people confined in California's Pelican Bay State Prison initiated a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison's "security housing unit,"...
February 23, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security...
November 30, 2021Since a hearing in May, where Ashley Diamond detailed abuse by both incarcerated men and prison officials, she has suffered two more sexual assaults
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a panel discussion on imprisonment and resistance featuring Sahar Francis , director of the Ramallah-based prisoners' rights organization Addameer, Samar...
Updated: June 13, 2018
January 19, 2017Yesterday, senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol argued our case Ziglar v. Abbasi before the Supreme Court . By all accounts, it was a masterful presentation, expertly parrying the justices’...
Lower Court Declared Israeli Assault Plausible Case of Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza; Meanwhile Mass Starvation Increases February 28, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Late yesterday, the Ninth...
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