The heartrending documentary “Waiting for Fahd,” tells the story of CCR client Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17..
Updated: September 4, 2021
July 14, 2017Last month, I took my first trip to the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to visit Sufyian Barhoumi. As a military handler drove me and my colleagues from the Center for Constitutional...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room 3543 18 th Street #8 San Francisco, CA Featuring: Zahra Billoo , Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic...
Updated: April 1, 2011
May 2010Amy Goodman, host of the syndicated "Democracy Now!" news program, and two of her producers filed suit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and other defendants Wednesday over...
On April 24, 2017, CCR joined a coalition of organizations in a letter calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to disclose information related to the cooperation between federal and...
Updated: May 3, 2017
December 2011Nicholas K. Peart, a witness in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights against racial profiling, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times...
CCR combines daring and innovative litigation, advocacy and strategic communications in our commitment to use the law as a positive force for social change. Our work is explicitly rooted in the civil...
Updated: May 20, 2015
April 21, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
Rufus Henry, a Black Man, was convicted by 10 white jurors as two Black jurors dissented
These two deportation cases involve two Palestinian activists, Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, whom the government have attempted to deport since 1987. They argue that Hamide and Shehadeh’s lawful...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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