September 14, 2017Police officers repeatedly pleaded with a Bronx man armed with a knife and toy gun to drop everything before they fatally shot him last week, according to body-camera footage released by the New York...
September 11, 2021...Advocates have called on Biden to consider alternatives to commission trials, including plea deals that could give prisoners credit for time served. Already, one prisoner, Majid Khan, is set to be...
by Jules Lobel, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public...
Updated: December 6, 2011
This case, Seeds of Peace v. City of Pittsburgh , USDC W.D. PA, was filed on behalf of activists harassed by the police in the days before the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. It is related to the Codepink...
Updated: September 28, 2009
This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...
CCR Staff Attorney Alexis Agathocleous will speak on a Legal Advocacy Clinic 101 workshop panel at the Sex & Justice Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan October 5th. The event will take place from...
Updated: October 1, 2012
April 12, 2019... During opening remarks, TBS Director of Original Programming Ashley Golden said that amid all the jokes, “Full Frontal” is a “platform for advocacy.” In the segment, Bee sat down to talk to human...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas will join organizers, educators, and other movement lawyers on Wednesday, March 5 , from 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST , for a discussion...
Updated: February 21, 2025
D.J.C.V. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") is a habeas corpus case on behalf of D.J.C.V., a two-year old child, and his father, Mr. C., who are asylum seekers from Honduras. They...
Updated: June 27, 2023
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Updated: April 9, 2018
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