Attorneys Say Report by Monitor Overseeing Reforms Misleads June 7, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a court filing highlighting ongoing racial disparities...
July 30, 2015Eleven years ago, when I was arrested along with six other animal activists on domestic terrorism charges , I was already tired of looking for lawyers. The campaign I was working on, Stop Huntingdon...
December 17, 2020On November 17, 2020, at 4:45 AM, five plain-clothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) climbed the side of a building in south Brooklyn and attempted to enter a second floor...
June 12, 2013, New Orleans – Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a settlement with Louisiana was finalized that...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
Updated: May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014, New York, Geneva – Today, the United Nations Committee Against Torture found that the widespread sexual violence within the Catholic church amounted to torture and cruel, inhuman...
May 5, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned to appear before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to report on its record in preventing, punishing and redressing torture,...
Stop-and-Frisk Class Action Update
Updated: December 19, 2012
Click on the date to open/downoad the transcript from each day of the trial. Please note that some testimony stretched between multiple days, and certain witnesses were called back to the stand...
Updated: January 29, 2015
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
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