... In the years since Yousry’s arrest and trial, the U.S. government has struggled to find competent Arabic-language translators. In sensitive legal cases, like the ongoing military-court hearings...
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, protesting a new pro-Israel policy that legal groups warn is “McCarthyite” and unconstitutional . Cuomo...
“You do not belong here on earth!” people yell at the filmmaker and crew of Troublers , a film by Young Lee that tells the chilling story of repression LGBTQI community members face in South Korea...
All day yesterday I got text messages from queer friends. “Are you OK?” “OMG it could have been me.” “I had two friends who were there.” “How are you holding up?” “I used to go to Pulse all the time...
Last night, on what would have been his 73rd birthday, nearly 1000 people turned out to commemorate CCR's late President Emeritus Michael Ratner. Executive Director Vince Warren, among two dozen...
July 15, 2016, Albany – Today, the Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization of Black New York City firefighters, along with their attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the...
Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
Attorneys Provide Records to Review Board, Urge al Qahtani’s Release to Care June 15, 2016 – Tomorrow morning Guantánamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani will have a hearing before a Periodic Review...
...Baher Azmy, lead counsel in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Muslims plaintiffs in New Jersey who are suing the NYPD over the surveillance program, said that even if Trump wanted to resurrect the...
Long before Mohammed al-Qahtani was suspected of planning to participate in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the 20th hijacker, Saudi police found him naked in a garbage dumpster in Riyadh. In...
