Law Firms Abused Legal Process by Trying to Sue an Entire Social Movement January 10, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal served a motion for...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
This morning, CCR filed the first major legal challenge to Trump’s Guantánamo policy, which we announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. A rally outside the White...
January 16, 2018, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, Louisiana groups represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC to make its...
Israel’s enablers in the United States ramped up their efforts to shut down the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement known as BDS. Many states including New York have passed laws...
I was captured when I was in my 20s and brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, after more than two years in secret prisons. I have been imprisoned here without charges since then. I am now 43. I feel...
Guantanamo’s symbolism has shifted fundamentally over the three presidential administrations that it has been used as an island prison. It’s worth reconsidering that history—and what it means in the...
...Wells Dixon, a senior staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which was involved in putting forward this week’s action, said the Trump administration had opened itself up to a legal...
...“It’s clear that a man who thinks we should water-board terror suspects even if it doesn’t work, because ‘they deserve it, anyway,’ has no qualms about keeping every last detainee in Guantánamo,...
...Their complaint, filed on the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention center on the base in southeast Cuba, is unusual legal step since this type of action, known as habeas corpus...
