October 21, 2016Four former inmates of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison will now be able to sue over alleged torture by United States military contractors. A US federal appeals court reinstated the lawsuit on...
September 26, 2017Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our...
November 2013As Congress begins debate on the 2014 defense authorization bill this week, both the president and the legislature have an opportunity to make meaningful progress toward closing Guantánamo and...
Legal Analysis: Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States In February 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel brought the first habeas case in federal court on behalf of...
Updated: January 11, 2010
July 18, 2024, New York – In response to reports that Columbia University may fire or otherwise seriously sanction our former board chair, Katherine Franke, the Center for Constitutional Rights Board...
June 21, 2010, Washington and New York – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to criminalize speech in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge the Patriot Act before...
July 1, 2020... Khan’s attorney, J. Wells Dixon of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, explained that he read the judge’s decision as also “open[ing] the door to a claim that Mr. Khan was denied...
On February 13, 2018, CCR and 14 other organizations sent a memorandum to Missouri lawmakers opposing S.B. 849 and H.B. 2179, anti-boycott bills that would require any prospective state contractors...
Updated: February 21, 2018
This report chronicles the history of prisoner protests at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station from February 2002 to August 2005 based upon the information known to date. An...
Updated: January 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA -- Almost ten years after the events, and after four weeks of trial, a jury in federal court in San Francisco today found Chevron not liable for the shootings, killings and torture...
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