..."The moment the stay was lifted, all these people received visa denials with a notice also saying they were denied a waiver," says Diala Shamas, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
May 9, 2018, New York – In response to today’s Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel to head the CIA, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Gina Haspel could not...
Michel Paradis, a lawyer for a terror suspect who was tortured under Trump pick to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, joins Ari Melber ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing. Director of the Center for...
May 15, 2018 The Honorable Richard Burr Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 217 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Mark Warner Vice-Chair, Senate Select...
On May 15, 2018, CCR joined a coalition of Palestinian and U.S.-based human rights groups in submitting a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo demanding that the State Department investigate...
May 15, 2018 Senator Bob Corker United States Senate 425 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Senator Bob Menendez United States Senate 528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC...
On May 15, 2018, CCR sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing S.J. Res. 59, the 2018 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, also known as the "Corker-Kaine...
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...
...I know that Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights also have extensive dossiers against high-level US officials involved in these torture programs, including Haspel. She...
...As Pamela Spees, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote : Honduras has been declared the most dangerous country in the world for land rights and environmental...