Yassir Fazaga, a Black Muslim imam who immigrated to the United States from Eritrea, and his congregants were targeted by the FBI, under a dragnet surveillance operation that, by the Bureau’s own...
Updated: September 28, 2021
Home is Here NOLA, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, three local immigrant rights organizations, are challenging subpoenas from Louisiana...
Updated: July 28, 2023
Devyn Elijah Springer, who goes by the pen name Musa, is a Black, Muslim, queer activist and journalist from the Atlanta area. On April 8, 2025, they were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border...
Updated: April 16, 2025
On April 16, 2026, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve a controversial law enforcement program known as the “Drone as First Responder” program. The program would launch drones equipped with...
Updated: June 22, 2026
Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 29, 2025, seeking records of the Trump administration’s communications with...
Updated: September 9, 2026
The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the activists enduring mounting state violence and repression as they seek to protect their communities and natural resources from the...
Updated: April 26, 2024
June 2, 2015The CIA’s abuses under its “enhanced interrogations" program included practices beyond those known to the public, according to a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has turned into a cooperating...
September 3, 2015A federal court ruled American Muslims, who claim they were placed on the No Fly List after refusing to become informants, are not allowed to sue FBI agents for damages. The case, Tanvir v. Holder,...
June 20, 2017Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Ziglar v. Abbasi , an important case curbing lawsuits against former government officials for purported abuse of federal detainees. Some will view this decision...
September 7, 2017Imagine a government that kidnaps , tortures , rapes , and kills . Now imagine one that forces people into slavery . These horrors sound like things that happen to people who live in far away...
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