October 22, 2015, New York – In response to President Obama’s veto today of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of...
October 7, 2015As Israeli violence against the Palestinian people escalates, support across the globe for justice in Palestine, and calls in this country for the US government and corporations to stop facilitating...
October 22, 2015The Army judge presiding at the Sept. 11 terror trial has added a new adviser to his staff — the former military judge who presided at the 2013 court martial of Private Chelsea Manning. Retired Army...
October 15, 2015There is no question that a Guantanamo Bay prisoner whose hunger strike has wasted him down to 75 pounds is gravely ill, but the question raised in federal court Thursday was whether the illness is...
October 15, 2015Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee whose weight has dropped to 74 pounds (33.4-kg) during his long hunger strike argued in U.S. court on Thursday he should be freed for health reasons, and a judge...
October 15, 2015A sickly 75.5-pound Guantánamo hunger striker may be entitled to a medical panel review on whether he’s so sick he should be released, a federal judge said Thursday, advising lawyers to ask the...
October 22, 2015...Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, says whatever the strategy, the NYPD should also focus on retraining its supervisors — and not just their cadets. "The...
October 23, 2015President Obama broke his cycle of empty veto threats over Guantanamo on Thursday, sending a defense authorization bill back to Congress with a defiant message: “Let’s do this right.” It was only the...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on November 2. The November vigil will focus on the case of the Holy Land Five (HL5), a charity...
Updated: October 28, 2015
October 28, 2015It is worrying that James B. Comey, head of an agency ostensibly committed to evidence-based decision making, is trafficking in vague notions about a “Ferguson effect,” ... Read the full letter here.
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