In March 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas "black sites" operated by the CIA. He was brought to...
Updated: October 27, 2021
In decisions about what cases to take and in our assessment of the outcome of a case, CCR looks beyond a narrow legal lens and considers above all a case’s value to the social movements of which it...
Updated: May 27, 2015
We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the...
Updated: July 31, 2020
Anti-Palestinian at the Core: The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S. Antiterrorism Law , a white paper published by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights, shows how core features...
Updated: February 21, 2024
In the last three and a half years of my life, I have been fortunate enough to not only witness huge strides in the movement to end child sexual abuse but to have become a part of it. History is...
Updated: April 29, 2014
This settlement represents a monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California, and across the country. California’s agreement to...
Updated: September 1, 2015
This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights...
Updated: February 29, 2016
Zahir Hamdoun Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen born in 1979 in Hadramout, Yemen, was held without charge in Guantanamo for over fourteen years. The fifth of eight children, Mr. Hamdoun grew up in a...
Updated: August 15, 2016
Yasser Ebrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept...
Updated: September 8, 2021
We write to you with concern in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly on Friday, 27 September 2024, and ask that your...
Updated: October 4, 2024
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