Consolidated cases against private military contractor Blackwater, later known as Xe Services, and its founder Erik Prince, for the Nisoor Square shooting and the killing of civilians at Watahba...
Updated: August 11, 2017
August 8, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) opposed the Obama administration’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review an appellate court ruling that high-level...
On November 12th at Northeastern University, CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present her research on the powerful psychological effects of violations of ecnomic, social and cultural...
Updated: February 7, 2014
On May 24, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted Mr. Cardenas’ petition for review. The court vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 8-6 en banc decision...
January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil...
Join us on the 11th anniversary of Guantánamo prison to call on President Obama to fullfill his broken promise to shut it down, and for all branches of the U.S. government to uphold human...
Updated: January 7, 2013
May 24, 20011, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking immediate release of documents that the United States...
February 1, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with three Department of Justice offices: the Office of Legal Counsel...
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture survivors against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology...
Updated: October 24, 2024
November 11, 2014, Geneva – Today, Murat Kurnaz, tortured and detained by the U.S. for five years at Kandahar and then Guantanamo, addressed the U.S. government and the members of the Committee...
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