Download CCR's report on current Guantanamo conditions . After over seven years of unlawful executive detention, the approximately 240 men who remain imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Base at Guant...
April 1, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, the D. C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of Nazul Gul and Adel Hamed, two former Guantánamo detainees whose habeas corpus...
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
June 8, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, advocates and attorneys critical of the controversial immigration program Secure Communities (S-Comm) decried the agency’s placing of...
June 8, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights announced the selection of its new legal director, Baher Azmy. Mr. Azmy is an esteemed lawyer, professor and scholar, who...
June 14, 2011, Phoenix and New York -- Nearly a year after the arrest of three lawyers who were monitoring the police response to protestors opposing the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB1070...
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
July 19, 2011, New York – Yesterday, victims of drone attacks in Pakistan and their families filed a "First Information Report" (FIR) in Islamabad seeking an arrest warrant for John...
December 10, 2008, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director...
May 18, 2009, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court issued a decision against a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert...
