December 2009In Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case filed on behalf of Arab and Muslim non-citizens who were subjected to prolonged and abusive detention in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
Updated: February 23, 2010
Please join us Thursday September 24 th to volunteer at The Center for Constitutional Rights for a day. If you are interested, please contact An-Tuan Williams at
[email protected] . Lunch will...
Updated: September 11, 2009
Vanessa, Lynn, Corin , and Jemma Redgrave make a very special appearance to read Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak , a collection of poems written by detainees held in the US detention...
Updated: November 28, 2007
May 2012Can the President say he’s sorry to an innocent man whom the United States delivered to Syria to be tortured? Sixty thousand Americans have done so, signing a petition that begins, “I...
February 2015" Two activists are scheduled to appear in a federal district court in Chicago on Thursday, marking the first time that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)—which criminalizes protected speech...
April 17, 2016The Saudis agreed to take the prisoners because Yemen was considered too unstable for them to return them to. The transfer leaves 80 prisoners at the US military jail - most of whom have been held...
May 5, 2016Activist groups are pushing back against lawmakers’ attempt to punish Americans who boycott Israel and other U.S. allies. Pending legislation in dozens of states around the country, legal groups warn...
May 11, 2016Legendary human rights lawyer Michael Ratner passed away of cancer on Wednesday at age 72. Ratner was the president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights , a nonprofit legal organization...
July 21, 2016... Just last week, a federal judge ruled that the government must make contracts with private prison companies available to the public. Detention Watch and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
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