Procedures for Holding Men Under Strict Communications Restrictions Violate Due Process, Appeal Says April 7, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for men who had been imprisoned in secretive...
A federal judge gave final approval to the settlement of a class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement, sometimes for years, at California's Pelican Bay prison...
New York, NY – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys hailed the decision of Guantánamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s military commission as a significant development in the battle...
March 30, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging violations of fundamental constitutional rights, including the right to due process, at...
Samer Araabi is the Associate Director of Political Education and Research at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He leads the organization’s work to identify, develop, manage, and implement...
December 7, 2009, Washington, DC— Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger today issued a report on an independent inquiry into ACORN’s organizational systems and processes and made...
Amna Akbar, Columbus, OH, is an Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, critical theory, and policing, race, and inequality. Her...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights asked David E. Coombs, Esq., attorney for accused Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning, to forward to Chief Judge Lind CCR's request for public access to the...
...The three Yemenis who have now been cleared for release have been held at Guantanamo since the early 2000s. Al-Rammah has been held at Guantanamo since May 2003 and was accused of "becoming a...
