CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will speak as part of the Tea Project about the work of CCR representing men imprisoned at Guantánamo. Setting the stage for this event will be 779 cast...
Updated: June 1, 2016
- Turkmen v. Ashcroft was first filed on April 17, 2002, on behalf of three non-citizens and a putative class of Arab, South Asian and Muslim men arrested on immigration charges and detained in...
Updated: November 22, 2016
November 3, 2009 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement...
Retribution“swift and crushing” at Orange County Jail after speaking out against brutality, racist abuse, medical neglect April 4, 2023, New York – Federal and local officials waged a “far-reaching”...
September 30, 2021, New York — In response to today’s hearing in Abdulrahman al-Hela v. Biden on whether a man held at Guantánamo has rights under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, the...
Derek Lee argues the sentence for felony murder is unconstitutionally disproportionate and cruel Oct 8, 2024, Pittsburgh – The application of the felony murder rule, which holds liable for murder a...
February 11, 2021In the six years since Ferguson, calls for accountability for the state-sanctioned murder of Black people have evolved to encompass demands to defund and abolish the prison-industrial complex (PIC)...
May 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
Greenfield Louisiana relying on illegal rezoning ordinance to try to build massive grain terminal on land in historic Black community May 19, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – An...
Descendants in Cancer Alley brought suit to protect historic Black community and ancestral gravesites from massive grain elevator August 4, 2023, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a...
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