August 31, 2011, New York, NY – Today a federal judge rejected an effort by the City of New York to thwart a lawsuit filed by The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) that challenges the NYPD...
August 27, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news not only that Mayor Bloomberg announced the City of New York does not plan to evacuate the 12,000 prisoners at Rikers Island in advance of...
New York, August 11 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with the National Lawyers Guild, launched an interactive website to supplement the release of the Fifth Edition...
New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program,...
August 10, 2011, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law...
August 5, 2011, New York, NY —In reaction to a Resolution passed this week by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urging the United States to close the detention facility at...
July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...
July 21, 2011, New York, Jerusalem – Forty-five prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem and Israel, including Christian and Muslim religious figures, politicians, businesspeople and civil society...
July 19, 2011, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement today support of the hunger strikers at the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit: "The Center for...
July 19, 2011, New York – Yesterday, victims of drone attacks in Pakistan and their families filed a "First Information Report" (FIR) in Islamabad seeking an arrest warrant for John...