Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights asked David E. Coombs, Esq., attorney for accused Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning, to forward to Chief Judge Lind CCR's request for public access to the...
April 9, 2012 — Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar has been invited to speak at an International Drone Summit in Washington DC on April 28, but the U.S. government is failing to grant him a visa...
April 6, 2012, Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General issued two reports on the much-maligned “Secure Communities” deportation program. The...
March 13, 2012, New York, NY – Members of the House and Senate sent two letters to Secretary of State Clinton urging the State Department to address the worsening human rights crisis in...
March 8, 2012 - Today, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and over 80 other civil and immigrant rights organizations sent a letter to the FBI demanding that it end its facilitation of ICE...
February 28, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case that will determine whether corporations can be sued in U.S. courts for their complicity in...
February 21, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open an immediate criminal investigation into claims of...
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 13, 2012 — As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to consider whether corporations are immune from liability for human rights violations, a coalition of leading human rights...
February 8, 2012, New York and Madrid – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a declaration to a Spanish court detailing the torture of Mohammed al Qahtani, who has been...
January 31, 2012, New York, NY – In response to the Obama administration’s decision to admit interim Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the U.S. on Saturday night, purportedly to...