September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...
The attorneys for Salim Hamdan filed a brief in his military commission asking the judge to declare that Hamdan had been subjected to "abusive interrogation techniques," ie., torture. The...
..."The United States has a moral and legal obligation to ensure that its military funding is not used to support actions that violate international humanitarian or human rights law," said the letter...
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Join advocates, organizers, artists, and Guantánamo survivors on January 11, 2023, for a virtual rally to mark 21 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison was opened as part of the so-called...
Last week, a motion that Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys filed in the case of former ghost detainee Majid Khan was made public. The heavily redacted motion, which was filed in order to...
"When it comes to this summer's Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the slaughter of more than 2,000 Palestinians, including 500 children, it's easy to wonder if American apologists for Israeli...
Ruling Affirms Injunction Temporarily Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court August 4, 2020, New York – Today,the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s October 2019 decision granting a...
Two years ago, the Supreme Court said corporations were like people and had the same free-speech rights to spend unlimited sums on campaigns ads. Now, in a major test of human rights law, the...
