March 28, 2011 - Sexual violence in U.S. prisons and jails has reached crisis proportions. Immigration detainees are at especially high risk for sexual violence and have clear disincentives to...
May 15, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the leak of a City memo on the judge overseeing the Center’s...
This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join the final panel of this two-day conference organized by the Bernstein Center at NYU Law School. The panel title is "Lessons to Confront Closure at Home" and...
Migrant justice advocates and lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against top U.S. immigration authorities including the Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. They allege that U...
... This week on Intercepted: As Bloomberg nears a half a billion dollars in paid ads for his presidential campaign, he is intensifying his attacks on Sen. Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, the red-baiting...
Her integrity has been unfairly smeared in the wake of the stop-and-frisk ruling Last Thursday, three federal appeals court judges removed Judge Shira Scheindlin from the well- known stop-and-frisk...
Federal judge gives green light to lawsuit challenging CBP's turnaways of asylum seekers at the border [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal judge ruled last week that our lawsuit challenging...
February 11, 2014 , New York – In response to news reports that the Obama administration is considering assassinating an American citizen who allegedly presents a security threat, the Center...
As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
