April 16, 2009, New York – In response to President Obama’s decision to guarantee immunity to CIA officials who carried out the drowning torture known as waterboarding, which his attorney...
May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
June 4, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR ) issued the following statement in response to the agreement reached by EU Ministries of the Interior and Schengen associated...
May 10, 2010, New York – In response to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive...
June 7, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Experiments in Torture:...
April 21, 2010, New York – In response to a government motion today asking for jurors in the case of Fahad Hashmi to be anonymous and kept under extra security, the Center for Constitutional...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
September 12, 2011, New York - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMRC) decision in Al-Bahlul v. United States , which was...
September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...
Oral argument will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld tomorrow, October 6. Al-Zahrani is a civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...