July 24, 2019, San Francisco — This evening, a federal court blocked a new Trump administration asylum ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through...
Center for Constitutional Rights client Djamel Ameziane will exhibit select artwork he created while imprisoned at the US-run prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as part of The Pencil Is a Key...
Updated: September 26, 2019
Ahmed Abu Ali is a 40-year-old American citizen of Jordanian origin currently serving a sentence of life without parole in federal prison following a 2005 conviction for material support and related...
Updated: August 31, 2021
Same Saudi Agency Involved in Cover-Up Denied Torture of Ahmed Abu Ali October 3, 2019, Alexandria, VA – Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal court to vacate the...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education, Rachel Meeropol , at the 2019 Practising Law Institute's Prison Law...
Updated: November 1, 2019
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre , will testify before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes Public Hearing on Civil Rights Law 50-a. 50-a is a...
Updated: October 17, 2019
October 24, 2019...Darius Charney, who was lead counsel in the Floyd case representing the plaintiffs, said the NYPD have “a pathological resistance to acknowledging racial bias.” He mentioned a report released by...
Rachel Meeropol , will deliver the lunchtime keynote, "Litigation in Support of Struggle: From Standing Rock to Solitary Confinement," at the 2019 ClassCrits conference on November 15th at...
Updated: November 12, 2019
On November 18, 2019, CCR Senior Legal Worker and Coordinator, Ian Head testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council. In this testimony, CCR drew the Committee on Public...
Updated: November 18, 2019
December 3, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona – Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the...
Pages
