June 2012Imagine spending a month alone in a windowless cell the size of a small bathroom. Now multiply that by 100, and you can begin to understand the average period of solitary confinement endured by...
June 5, 2008, New York —“Today’s sham proceedings further illustrate the absurd nature of the process this White House has established at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government admits it only intends to...
The Center for Constitutional Rights visited Cincinnati to release its report on the findings of the hearing convened by CCR at the University of Cincinnati in May, 2003. The visit included meetings...
December 2013The struggle over New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices has been a long and dramatic one, played out in the streets, in the City Council and, of late, in a series of highly unusual court...
The news orgs seek records as part of their vital reporting on the case
The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
Wan Yin Lui is the Operations Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works directly under the Director of Operations and is in charge of the day-to-day operations and all facilities and...
July 16, 2020, New York/Chicago — On Thursday, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of...
September 8, 2015Thirteen years after he was tortured and held in a Syrian grave-like underground cell for nearly a year, Maher Arar has won a victory in his pursuit of accountability. Last week Canada formally...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and pack the court for oral arguments in Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen, a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Updated: May 2, 2019
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