Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
Last Friday, October 14, marked one year since reforms began under the historic settlement agreement in CCR’s case Ashker v. Brown , which effectively ended long-term solitary confinement throughout...
To mark the 23rd of the month, this Sunday, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to...
This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the indigenous water protectors of the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as they and their allies...
CCR's Aliya Hussain and Shayana Kadidal report live from Guantanamo about their visits with CCR clients Ghaleb Al-Bihani and Sufyian Barhoumi . Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on YouTube.
My abuela, a woman born in Old San Juan, taught me how to make café con leche. She taught me how to wake up my mind and my memory. So every morning, I wake up a few minutes early to make coffee. It’s...
Over the last several weeks, CCR has received 634 messages of support and solidarity with our clients from Sexual Minorities Uganda . As we head into court in Springfield this morning with SMUG, we...
Why would a Berlin-based European human rights organization celebrate CCR’s 50 years of work and dedicate an entire day of their conference to the legacy of Michael Ratner? Because for more than two...
