WASHINGTON, November 27, 2007 - The estates of two more Iraqis killed when Blackwater USA personnel allegedly opened fire on civilians in Nisoor Square in Baghdad on Sept. 16 and an injured survivor...
November 21, 2007, New York, NY – Yesterday, the RAND Corporation issued a report [attached at the bottom of the press release], commissioned by the New York Police Foundation and requested by...
November 13, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which brought the historic NYPD racial profiling case Daniels v. City of New York in 1999 in the wake of the Amadou...
November 7, 2007, New York, NY – Today, a New York City anti-immigrant raids network launched with the release of this statement condemning the ICE raids across the country and in New York City: In...
November 9, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Court of Appeals that rendition victim Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials should be...
November 6, 2007, New York, NY – In a key victory in the war against torture, today a federal court ruled that the lawsuit against a private military contractor in Iraq should be heard by a jury of...
October 31, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel issued a statement today in response to the news that the State Department had promised the employees of...
October 24, 2007, Washington, DC – According to press reports, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted during a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing today that the U.S. government...
On October 18, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client and extraordinary rendition victim Maher Arar testified at a House Joint Committee hearing convened to discuss his rendition by the...
On October 11, 2007, a legal team including the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sued Blackwater USA, the private military contractor whose heavily armed personnel allegedly opened fire on...