Invoking the fundamental principle of the right to an independent and impartial judiciary, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón has received strong support from ten international organizations of...
Court finds claim that UNRWA USA is liable for Oct 7 attacks baseless August 8, 2025, Wilmington, DE – A U.S. federal district court today dismissed a civil lawsuit that falsely claimed that a U.S...
Scott v. PA Board of Probation and Parole is a lawsuit in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on behalf of six individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (DBI), also known...
Updated: April 13, 2022
July 1, 2018...“Thousands or millions of peoples lives now depend on this waiver process. It’s become their only hope,” said Diala Shamas, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “It’s quite possible...
Samiha Riham is the Technology Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has worked as a technologist in multiple renowned organizations focusing on projects in IT and security management...
Please join us in court on February 14th for a status conference in Aref v. Holder , Center for Constitutional Rights' longstanding case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication...
Updated: February 7, 2019
Since August 8, 2005, detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp have been engaging in a life-threatening hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention without legal process and the inhumane...
September 29, 2011 , New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has joined the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will speak at a symposium at Michigan State University College of Law on the responses of the legal system to U.S. torture. The event will feature...
Updated: February 26, 2016
As the government continues to bomb civilians in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, this decision ordering in camera review of the memo is a crucial win for transparency and accountability September...
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