Freedom Flicks will partner with DOC NYC on November 16th to screen the award-winning documentary Soft Vengeance . SOFT VENGEANCE is a film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom...
Updated: October 20, 2014
April 25, 2008, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou...
November 20, 2023...On Nov. 13, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for complicity with...
May 5, 2024... Baher Azmy , legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and lead counsel for the plaintiffs said, “We are of course disappointed by the jury’s failure to reach a unanimous verdict in...
October 24, 2022...five years ago, when the Pentagon implemented its ban, officials claimed that it was “because the exhibition included an email address for people interested in buying artwork by the prisoners,...
February 23, 2022In the days after 9/11, dozens of men faced systemic abuse at the MDC due to their race, religion, immigration status, and ethnicity.
Although President Obama ended the U.S. torture program, there have been no prosecutions or accountability within the U.S. Now with the incoming Trump administration, there is the real danger that...
Updated: January 20, 2017
October 22, 2023...Cries for fair treatment filled the air Saturday afternoon as hundreds marched in downtown Orlando in support of rights for transgender people in Florida. The New York-based Center for...
A panel discussion at the New York University Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies on Lisa Hajjar's new book, "The War in Court," with Baher Azmy , Legal Director of the Center...
Updated: April 7, 2023
April 11, 2013, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, 25 prominent human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the swift closure of Guant...
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