April 23, 2025, Washington, D.C. – A group of five human rights organizations, together with law clinics, have published a new report urging the United Nations to denounce the accelerated...
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
Hundreds denied due process and held in abusive conditions as administration plans to send thousands more to infamous prison site July 29, 2025, New York – Civil rights groups today filed a Freedom...
Plea deals that result in life sentences for 9/11 defendants are the only path to justice – and the only way to close Guantánamo September 11, 2025, New York – On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the...
Aliya Hana Hussain is the Associate Director of Advocacy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She leads the Advocacy department in implementing strategies for increased alignment, collaboration,...
November 6, 2025This week, the U.S. government was meant to be reviewed at the United Nations as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, a peer-to-peer assessment of every country’s human rights record...
On December 16, 2025, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights to inform the thematic report on definitions...
Updated: January 6, 2026
Jan 8, 2026, New York – With the 24th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay approaching on January 11, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:...
To mark the 24th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening, 115 organizations, led by the Center for Victims of Torture and the Center for Constitutional Rights, signed this statement reaffirming that...
Updated: January 9, 2026
They leave us in prison for years, uncharged, Because we are Muslims. Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif...
Updated: January 12, 2026
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