Dr. Badar Khan Suri was released on May 14th after ICE arrested him for constitutionally protected association and speech in support of Palestinian rights July 1, 2025, Richmond, VA – The Fourth...
Zafar Arslan (f/k/a Adel Noori) It was against this backdrop that Mr. Arslan made the difficult decision to leave his homeland to escape the severe religious and political persecution he had endured...
Updated: January 14, 2010
Join CCR on February 3rd from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 pm to remember and honor David Kato at a candlelight vigil organized by the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission . The vigil will take...
Updated: February 2, 2011
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
May 1, 2019...They document that at some point from 2008–2013, of the “10.1% of Michigan residents under emergency management, 70.7% were African American and 7.3% were Hispanic or Latino,” noting that while...
November 13, 2020...Darius Charney is the Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a national legal advocacy group. He told 12 News when departments give their officers discretion over when to...
October 8, 2021...In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled that people imprisoned at Guantánamo can challenge their imprisonment by filing writs of habeas corpus. And in 2020, a federal appeals court panel...
New York plays a key role in the deportation machine, despite branding itself as “progressive” and “welcoming of immigrants.” New York’s complicity...
Updated: September 19, 2022
On April 9, 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a civil complaint with the Department of Homeland Security regarding the mistreatment of detainees at the Port Isabel Detention...
Updated: September 18, 2012
One enduring and pernicious myth about the men detained at Guantánamo is that they were all sent to the prison after being captured on the battlefield by U.S. forces in order to neutralize the threat...
Updated: January 14, 2016
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