Hundreds denied due process and held in abusive conditions as administration plans to send thousands more to infamous prison site July 29, 2025, New York – Civil rights groups today filed a Freedom...
New York, NY – Late last week, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) released more than 3,000 pages of documents concerning its investigation into the deaths of three detainees at...
January 28, 2019"Remain in Mexico" policy is a virtual wall and will lead to deaths In response to the announcement that the Trump administration will force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their...
On September 30, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative sent a Special Communication Complaint to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery;...
Updated: September 30, 2024
In January 2016, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States. CCR co-coordinated the Working Group's visit to New York City, and...
Updated: September 15, 2016
May 11, 2016Twelve years after horrific photos surfaced of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison, torture remains headline news. Disturbingly, the focus of this public conversation has...
Artist and printmaker Daniel Heyman has sketched many Iraqi torture victims. Daniels artistry makes its return to New York City in this thought provoking exibition: Close Encounters: Acts of A Social...
Updated: June 25, 2009
Derek Lee, a 35-year-old Black man, seeks end to state’s ban on parole for those convicted of felony murder July 17, 2023, Harrisburg, PA – In a potential landmark case, a Black man serving life...
October 16, 2012, New York and Crescent City, CA– On the one year anniversary of the end of their hunger strikes and the agreements struck with the California Department of Corrections and...
March 29, 2009, New York – According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), yesterday’s announcement that a Spanish judge has initiated a criminal investigation into the actions of John Yoo...
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