July 2008Toto Constant was declared guilty of mortgage fraud, leaving the Center for Constitutional Rights hopeful that convictions for human rights violations will follow. You can access the full article...
August 2008At least 17 detainees in Guantanamo Bay were subjected to the banned "frequent flyer" treatment where they were moved repeatedly from cell to cell to cause sleep deprivation prior to...
November 2008A former Haitian paramilitary leader, Emmaneul Constant, was sentenced Tuesday to at least 12 years in prison for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that cheated lenders out of $1.7 million.
January 2010The legal problem cited by the judge when he threw out the indictments against Blackwater guards was obvious to American government lawyers within days of the shooting. “It is regrettable that the...
In a first for a former Guantanamo captive freed by a federal judge, a Syrian man now living in Europe is suing the U.S. government for damages from what he calls a "Kafkaesque nightmare."
Updated: September 25, 2018
December 18, 2019... The Center for Constitutional Rights today in a new report said what Black and Latino New Yorkers already know: racist policing is still a primary policy of the NYPD. Will new Police Commissioner...
June 15, 2020, New York – In response to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Aimee Stephens , the Center...
Please join CCR and CUNY School of Law’s CLEAR Project for oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Tanvir v. Tanzin , our case challenging the FBI’s abuse of the government’s No-...
Updated: February 23, 2017
July 28, 2017New York governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to abolish solitary confinement for children through a Raise the Age law. Despite that, kids as young as seven can be placed into solitary confinement, since...
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