February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...
Motion emphasizes that asylum seekers have been seriously injured, raped, and even killed after CBP officials turned them back at U.S. border September 8, 2020, San Diego – Asylum seekers who have...
CCR, Former Corrections Officials, Large Coalition Flood BOP with Public Comments Critical of Experimental Prison Units That Target Muslims, Activists With No Due Process Communication Management...
July 27, 2023, San Diego, CA – Today two immigrant rights groups and a group of asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Biden administration’s unlawful policy of...
January 26, 2013, Newark, New Jersey - Yesterday evening, the plaintiffs in Hassan, et al. v. City of New York , the federal lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department’s...
March 31, 2008, New York – The U.S. government referred capital military commission charges today against Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian man who was transferred to Guantánamo from...
Center for Constitutional Rights Says President Lacks Authority to Detain Prisoner November 30, 2016, Washington – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the...
January 26, 2018, New York – In response to the leak of a State Department cable saying that Trump plans to sign an executive order to keep Guantánamo Bay prison open, the Center for Constitutional...
December 9, 2008, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued that high-level government officials must be held accountable for sending Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar to...
“The best way for the American people to send a message to the Bush administration and the world that ‘we the people’ of the United States do not condone torture is to mobilize to reject the...
