October 2, 2015Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall ) It was during the escalating violence of Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s that our client Djamel Ameziane left in search of a better life. He lived in...
October 15, 2015This week, Yanar Mohammed, a leading women’s rights activist in Iraq and the founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) , testified before the United Nations Security Council about...
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...
November 16, 2015A few months ago, we told you about a troubling under-the-radar ruling in Munoz Santos v. Thomas , a case challenging the extradition of Jose Munoz Santos, a Mexican national, based on the testimony...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join other advocates and activists on a panel at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN)'s biannual national human rights conference Advancing Human Rights...
Updated: November 17, 2015
September 11, 2011In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, George W. Bush shredded the U.S. Constitution, trampled on the Bill of Rights, discarded the Geneva Conventions, and heaped scorn on the...
November 17, 2015Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
Center for Constitutional Rights issues statement in support November 23, 2015, New York – Today, in response to a detailed submission to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court by a...
There are 107 prisoners still being held, 48 have been cleared for release but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Wells Dixon discusses. Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on aljazeera.com .
Updated: December 11, 2015
December 11, 2015A year after the Senate Select Committee released its declassified executive summary of the torture program, the grim political reality in the United States is undeniable. Through its inaction, the U...
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