April 17, 2009, New York –The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) , which represents many of the men detained by the U.S. government at Guantánamo, praised Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon’s decision...
September 5, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement today that prisoners in Security Housing Units (SHU) throughout California have suspended their third hunger strike after nine...
Join human rights activists, torture survivors, Guantánamo attorneys, 9-11 family members, ex-military officials, and members of diverse faith communities in Washington, D.C. on January 11,...
Updated: January 10, 2015
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to co-sponsor monthly vigils calling for the closure of Guantánamo. These vigils will take place in several cities in the U.S. and abroad on the...
Updated: September 18, 2023
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights at Netroots Nation 2024 in Baltimore! In addition to co-sponsoring the conference, Executive Director Vincent Warren will be joining this featured panel...
Updated: June 25, 2024
January 11, 2013, Washington, D.C. – A broad coalition of human rights groups and other like-minded organizations marked the 11th anniversary of the first detained men being jailed at the U.S.-...
On April 29, 2025, together with members of civil society from around the world as well as international legal practitioners and scholars, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Movement Law Lab...
Updated: April 29, 2025
Calls Government-Imposed Separation “Most Cruel of All Cruelties” October 15, 2018, New York — Today, a federal judge ordered the immediate reunification of an immigrant father and his two-year-old...
A Brief history of the Alien Tort Statute Adopted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has been part of U.S. law for more than 200 years, and allows non-U.S. citizens to...
Updated: February 6, 2017
February 10, 2009, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, attorneys for torture victims abused in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq asked the federal Court of Appeals for the District of...
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