September 2006Government commission in Canada ruled that Maher Arar is not a terrorist/White House seeking to revoke right of habeas corpus to non-citizens held in US custody outside of the US.
February 2006U.S. district judge David Trager dismissed Maher Arar's lawsuit against the U.S. government.
November 2011"George Ruiz is 72 years old. For the past 30 years, he has spent every day alone — locked in a cramped, windowless cell inside the Security Housing Unit (SHU) first at California’s...
July 7, 2011, New York – In response to reports that the Obama administration had flown a Somali man accused of ties to terrorism to New York to face prosecution after holding and interrogating...
The U.S. Drug War has fueled mass incarceration and discriminatory policing practices in the U.S. as well as violence and militarization throughout Latin America. This panel will bring together...
Updated: February 20, 2014
November 8, 2023...On October 18, 2023, the Center for Constitutional Rights (also known as CCR) published an emergency legal briefing called, Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to participate in this side event for the 17th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court hosted by the American Bar...
Updated: December 5, 2018
July 2, 2024, New York – In response to the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: Hundreds of Kenyan police have arrived in...
On October 1, 2018, Katherine Gallagher , a CCR Senior Staff Attorney, will appear as a panelist at The Accountability of ‘Major Powers’ for Alleged Serious Violations of Human Rights and...
Updated: September 14, 2018
May 24, 2018On Tuesday, a group of academics and human rights and civil liberties organizations issued an open letter expressing concern that celebrities and business leaders did not publicly speak out about...
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