Horrific Treatment of Victims Constitutes Torture and War Crimes February 21, 2018, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal judge ruled that the treatment of three Iraqi individuals formerly...
New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the transfer of its Uighur client from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the...
Courts, Not Trump, Will Decide Fate of Prisoners, Attorneys Say January 30, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s statement in tonight’s State of the Union address that he is issuing an executive...
Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
December 11, 2008, New York – In response to the release today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S...
Groups fighting Death By Incarceration traveled to Geneva to brief committee for its review of U.S. compliance with human rights treaty November 3, 2023, New York – Today, the United Nations Human...
Join us on May 18 for oral arguments on whether California violated the settlement in our case, Ashker v. Governor of California , a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of incarcerated people held...
Biden News: Biden must take swift action to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of Muslim men being...
Rooted in racism, decades-long crisis caused by chronic neglect harms tens of thousands in predominantly Black city August 10, 2023, Jackson, MS – Yesterday, grassroots organizations representing...
