September 30, 2015"An Algerian man is seeking compensation from the U.S. government for the nearly 12 years he was held without charge in prison on the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Djamel Ameziane submitted a claim...
September 30, 2015"An Algerian man is seeking compensation from the U.S. government for the nearly 12 years he was held without charge in prison on the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Djamel Ameziane submitted a claim...
January 23, 2012, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to the U.S. State Department expressing concerns that David Murillo and Silvia Mencías, plaintiffs in...
September 27, 2012 – In response to the European Court of Human Rights’s (ECtHR) ruling in Babar Ahmad and others v. The United Kingdom earlier this week, which allows five men held in...
February 2, 2016On February 2, 2012, after NYPD officers unlawfully entered into his home without a warrant, probable cause, or any other legal justification, NYPD officer Richard Haste shot and killed 18-year-old...
October 7, 2016For 50 years, CCR has been a part of virtually every movement for civil and human rights. We have fought to redistribute power to the oppressed, the under-resourced, the criminalized, and the...
November 21, 2023 — The Center for Constitutional Rights and our extended family are reeling from the loss of the legendary Bill Goodman, our former legal director, who died suddenly on Friday. Since...
June 11, 2024Biden’s attacks on asylum seekers are all the more disgraceful because many are fleeing problems that the United States created
October 2009When a Louisiana Justice of the Peace refused to marry and interracial couple, CCR attorney Bill Quigley spoke out against this injustice, arguing that "Racial discrimination has been a...
What: The Right To Dissent Who: Frances Fox Piven and Michael Ratner When: 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 21st Where: Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck; 6422 Montgomery Street (Rt. 9) Please join us...
Updated: October 11, 2011
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