Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, former death-squad leader and known human rights abuser, has spent the past 14 years - in Haiti and in the U.S. - trying to evade justice, whether it be for rape...
Updated: July 15, 2009
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
July 30, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in support of the launch of the Guantanamo Justice Center , a new Geneva-based nongovernmental...
October 11, 2023Diala Shamas: 'The US must end its complicity' Since the United States’ announcement of unconditional support and emergency military and other assistance to Israel, Israeli officials declared...
Join us for a virtual press conference following Supreme Court oral arguments in our No-Fly List case, Tanvir v. Tanzin . You must register on Zoom for the press conference in...
Updated: October 2, 2020
On March 16, 2018, CCR and 28 organizations signed a joint letter to express concerns regarding the nomination of Gina Haspel for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and to ask the...
Updated: May 15, 2018
Watch the full day of panels on YouTube , or as a free download from iTunes U . The day-long event looked at how Copelon's work helped to define and shape the field of international women's human...
Updated: September 28, 2017
January 9, 2008, New York, NY – Today, Haitian former paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant rejected a plea bargain that would have given him a prison sentence of three to nine years in a...
Vigil at the Supreme Court 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m . Join Witness Against Torture for a vigil in support of the human and constitutional rights of the men held at Guantanamo before and during the oral...
Updated: November 30, 2007
July 6, 2023...Meanwhile in the United States, just last month, President Joe Biden, who repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s cruel and needless immigration policies, decided to outright adopt some...
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