Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a.k.a. Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim. Mr. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when...
Updated: March 9, 2017
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Omar Farrah at the NYU Review of Law & Social Change's 50 th Anniversary Colloquium to explore a topic that lies at the...
Updated: February 6, 2020
Ayla Kadah is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on dismantling racist policing and immigration practices, advancing Palestinian human rights and liberation,...
November 6, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
On October 24, 2016, CCR, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild sent a memorandum to Pennsylvania Senate members opposing HB 2107, a bill that prohibits state agencies from contracting with...
Updated: October 16, 2017
March 4, 2016Jen Marlowe’s latest production, There is a Field , opens with actor Kesav Wable’s back to the audience. Wable plays Aseel Asleh, a Palestinian teenager and peace-activist who was a citizen of Israel...
A class action lawsuit challenging the racially discriminatory impact of several standardized tests New York City used in a re-certification process for City public school teachers
Updated: September 23, 2020
Kifah Jayyousi is a United States citizen who is married with five children and currently lives and works in Michigan. Kifah is a plaintiff in Aref v. Garland , a federal lawsuit filed in 2010...
Updated: October 14, 2021
November 20, 2017On Nov. 3, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber, “[T]here is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity...
FOIA request seeking information on controversial immigration detention bed quotas.
Updated: December 3, 2019
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