I last saw Tariq Ba Odah in March, just one month after he completed the eighth year of an unbroken hunger strike in protest of his continued detention without charge at Guantánamo. Tariq’s lawyer,...
Dorian Warren talks with Vince Warren, Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Obery Hendricks, Professor at Union Theological Seminary about why the South Carolina Shooting should be...
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who has been on hunger strike for over eight years, has launched a legal push for his immediate release from the United States military prison because he now weighs around...
A Yemeni Guantanamo detainee held without charge for 13 years must be repatriated because his weight dropped dangerously low on his long-term hunger strike, his lawyers told a federal judge in...
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture. Freedom Flicks, the Center for Constitutional Rights long-running film series, harnesses the power...
When Laverne I. and her husband were stopped by the NYPD while simply walking down the street, she asked one of the officers for his badge number as they began to search her husband’s pockets. The...
June 30, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to the Obama administration’s long-awaited announcement that it had appointed a new official at the...
Steven Salaita, the professor suing the University of Illinois for revoking his job last summer, has found a new academic position in Beirut. Salaita will be chair of American Studies at the American...
On June 25 th , New Yorkers came together to learn about progressive Iraqi organizing on the ground and to celebrate the hope that such struggles are bringing to a place that is all too often...