October 21, 2016Attorneys for Black Lives Matter activists sued the federal government this week in an effort to obtain information about its monitoring of constitutionally protected protests. Filed Thursday in...
Join us for the opening night of "Art and Resistance," a group art show featuring artists from Uganda, Burkina Faso, and the U.S. Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Mor Mor Studio, and the Center for...
Updated: November 7, 2016
October 25, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the Periodic Review Board decision declining to approve its client Guled Hassan Duran (ISN 10023) for transfer...
CCR joined New York City-based advocates and community members on July 12, 2016 in a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association , Maina...
Updated: October 26, 2016
For many years, St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties have permitted police officers to issue the equivalent of a statewide arrest warrant into an electronic database, designating an individual...
Updated: December 8, 2022
October 26, 2016Did you know that throwing a rock through the window of a Whole Foods could be punished as a federal crime of terrorism? An Assistant United States Attorney admitted as much last year, when defending...
October 25, 2016A U.S. government review board has rejected the release of the alleged Southeastern Asian terrorist leader known as Hambali from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Periodic Review Board said in...
October 21, 2016Four former inmates of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison will now be able to sue over alleged torture by United States military contractors. A US federal appeals court reinstated the lawsuit on...
October 24, 2016California has greatly reduced solitary confinement in its prisons and has nearly eliminated its long-term use under a year-old legal settlement, lawyers for the prisoners reported Monday The state...
October 24, 2016Amid reports on federal monitoring of protesters, two prominent civil-rights groups filed a lawsuit demanding that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security cough up records on their surveillance...
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