The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in New York that would threaten core First Amendment-...
Updated: October 16, 2017
February 5, 2016This Saturday will mark 40 years since political prisoner Leonard Peltier was arrested and charged with the deaths of two federal agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Since that time...
February 5, 2016In a major legal victory for international human rights law, the UN acknowledged the risk of extradition to the United States faced by journalist Julian Assange. This decision marks a significant...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in California that would threaten core First Amendment-protected...
Updated: October 16, 2017
Before Edward Snowden, before WikiLeaks, and before Watergate, there was The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI . Join us, on March 31, for a free screening of 1971 , an engrossing...
Updated: March 30, 2016
March 15, 2016Inmates challenging their confinement in special prison units where their communications are monitored non-stop will get one more chance to revive their case against the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
March 16, 2016Attorneys urged the D.C. Circuit to revive claims that federal prisons single out Muslim inmates for isolation units where their communications face 24-7 surveillance. The Center for Constitutional...
March 16, 2016Students from a wide coalition at the University of Minnesota recently launched a divestment campaign to urge the administration to pull its investments in four companies that profit from Israel’s...
March 17, 2016Yassin Aref, the Albany imam sent to federal prison after being convicted of material support for terrorism, is part of a case heard in court this week involving inmates challenging confinement in...
March 18, 2016On Tuesday, March 15, CCR Senior Staff Attorney argued before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in CCR's case challenging Communication Management Units in federal prisons. Check out her vlog...
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