November 20, New York – In response to the transfer of five men from Guantanamo, including our Yemeni client Abd Al Hakim Ghalib Ahmad Alhag, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued...
*Please note this event will occur on the 2nd Wednesday of May. In June we will return to First Wednesdays* Join CCR at Von Bar for our monthly happy hour on Wednesday, May 13th. We’ll discuss...
Updated: April 28, 2015
February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...
We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the...
Updated: July 31, 2020
Ten years after the first publication of photos from inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Democracy Now! spoke to Al Jazeera journalist and Al Shimari v CACI plaintiff Salah Hassan about his torture...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 14, 2020...What’s clear from the notorious death squad leader’s history with the U.S. and its own court system is that many influential people in several of our alphabet agencies do not want Constant on...
April 17, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum...
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake...
Updated: March 17, 2011
Money Belongs to the People of Afghanistan and Should be used to Stabilize Economy and Relieve Suffering, Court Filing Says April 22, New York – Afghan civil society groups are opposing the effort by...
June 2, 2015We thought we'd heard the most gruesome torture allegations last December, when the US Senate released its infamous report detailing the CIA's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" methods. Now a...
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