Noor Zafar is a Bertha Justice Fellow in the Guantanamo docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Noor earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as co-president of the Muslim...
February 14, 2017... The vast majority of “terrorists” cited in the CIS study were convicted for providing “material support” to designated terrorist organizations, not for actually planning or committing acts of...
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Dear Secretary Blinken: The undersigned U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights leaders and organizations write to demand that you immediately and unequivocally condemn the Israeli...
Updated: November 18, 2021
Today, the New York Times' top editorial was a strong rebuke to the Obama administration for forceably sending a man from Guantanamo to his native Algeria, where he feared he would be tortured and...
Our dedication to human rights and social justice struggles has led us to complement our legal work with robust advocacy and communications work, and a conscious effort to support grassroots...
Updated: December 11, 2024
In March 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas "black sites" operated by the CIA. He was brought to...
Updated: October 27, 2021
March 14, 2016This morning in Flint, Michigan I stood together with our community and legal partners to announce the Center for Constitutional Rights’ latest challenge to Michigan’s undemocratic and racially...
Georgetown University in Qatar will host the Reimagining Palestine conference, September 20 - 22, 2024 . Some of the world’s leading academics and practitioners will gather for a thought-...
Updated: September 12, 2024
October 16, 2017This 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 every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
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