Celine Zhu is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues of sexual and gender-based violence, LGBTQI+ persecution, discriminatory policing, environmental...
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Sadaf Doost is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on supporting the Afghan people in the wake of the Taliban takeover, defending Palestine liberation...
May 5, 2016On May 4, 2016, CCR bestowed the Founders Award on Jules Lobel, our passionate cooperating attorney, board member since 1986, and current board president. Jules is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed...
CCR's first landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the Guantanamo detainees.
Updated: July 3, 2014
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
March 27, 2014 - Today, the UN Human Rights Committee issued highly critical concluding observations on the United States’ compliance with international human rights requirements. CCR had...
January 25, 2021Women in sanctuary file lawsuit against ICE to challenge retaliatory and excessive civil fines Four women living in sanctuary, along with Austin Sanctuary Network (ASN) and Free Migration Project (...
After pressure campaign, U of Minnesota reverses course on hiring Israeli-American Professor Raz Segal to head Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies July 31, 2024, Minneapolis, MN – Today, the...
After a panel of judges split 2-1 for the government, Mr. Khalil is urging the full Third Circuit to rehear government’s appeal of orders prohibiting his detention and deportation March 31, 2026,...
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