On Friday October 24th the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will hear opening arguments from counsel of the defendants CACI International Inc and CACI Premier...
Updated: October 23, 2008
June 2, 2015As the evening sky darkens, the sergeant and rookie check on a crowd gathered at a makeshift memorial of cards, candles, and flowers near an apartment building’s entrance, the site of a gang shooting...
June 18, 2015Claims that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft approved harsh confinement conditions for immigrants who had no connection to terrorism but were detained following the Sept. 11 attacks because...
October 15, 2015This week, Yanar Mohammed, a leading women’s rights activist in Iraq and the founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) , testified before the United Nations Security Council about...
May 11, 2016S everal years ago, I asked the civil-rights lawyer Michael Ratner, who died Wednesday at age 72, whether he thought he had any chance of prevailing when, with the Center for Constitutional Rights ,...
May 12, 2016In the years following 9/11, Michael Ratner, who has died of cancer aged 72, emerged as one of America’s foremost human rights lawyers. He galvanised 500 US lawyers of various political persuasions...
November 1, 2016Fifty years from now, what will the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibit on the Movement for Black Lives look like? Will the exhibit feature videos from the hundreds...
CCR is pleased to cosponsor the next No Separate Justice vigil, which will focus on the U.S. government’s use of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) and highlight the case of Ahmed Abu Ali who has...
Updated: May 23, 2017
CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol will be speaking on two panels at this conference: the Know Your Rights 101 panel on Thursday, August 3, from 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., and a plenary titled "...
Updated: July 28, 2017
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