Courts, Not Trump, Will Decide Fate of Prisoners, Attorneys Say January 30, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s statement in tonight’s State of the Union address that he is issuing an executive...
Israel and U.S. advance plan for U.S. Embassy in Israel on land illegally confiscated by Israel from Palestinians – several of whom are now U.S. citizens Groups say that under plan, U.S. bears...
March 1, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Newly released documents reveal that Louisiana state intelligence officers surveilled community groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and that regulators used...
On December 8, 2005, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) brought a class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former Director of Israel’s...
We honor the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the U.S.—by envisioning a world more free than the one in which we currently live. We remember our elders...
Updated: June 13, 2020
Red to Green: Political Panic from McCarthyism to ‘Eco-Terrorism’ A panel discussion on past and present political persecution the United States Wednesday, December 7, 2011 6:30pm...
Updated: November 30, 2011
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
The Center For Constitutional Rights is proud of be a sponsor of the National Convening on Gang Policing Friday, December 7, 2018. Across the country, thousands of poor young people of color are...
Updated: November 29, 2018
April 20, 2019, New York – In response to news that the Trump administration had failed to either re-appoint Center for Constitutional Rights board member Gay McDougall or appoint her successor to...
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or...
Updated: October 8, 2020
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