Join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy and co-counsel Jeena Shah for a discussion of our Al Shimari case and CCR’s history challenging corporate immunity and seeking justice for torture. Discussion...
Updated: March 31, 2015
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on August 3rd as we continue to shine a light on government abuse in the realm of domestic terrorism...
Updated: July 29, 2015
Please join CCR for a conversation about Guantánamo, art, and activism to celebrate the launch of conceptual documentary artist Debi Cornwall's new book, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo...
Updated: October 17, 2017
May 17, 2018, New York, NY – In response to the Senate’s confirmation of Gina Haspel as CIA Director, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: The senators who voted...
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
Center for Constitutional Rights client Djamel Ameziane will exhibit select artwork he created while imprisoned at the US-run prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as part of The Pencil Is a Key...
Updated: September 26, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with Amnesty International on a pre-release screening of The Report , a feature film that brings to life the story behind the...
Updated: October 28, 2019
April 27, 2020More Buffalo residents sue over discriminatyr traffic ticketing [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, five Black residents of Buffalo joined a lawsuit against the City over its racially...
May 15, 2024...In April, I sat in on the closing arguments of Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three victims of torture at Abu Ghraib against...
December 1, 2016Now that the International Criminal Court has found “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. military forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at CIA black sites, a prominent human-rights...
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