December 8, 2015, Guantánamo – In a letter to his attorney before he received notice that his status would be reviewed today after a four-year wait, a Guantanamo detainee asked desperately, “Will...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
October 22, 2015, New York – In response to President Obama’s veto today of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of...
New Jersey Muslims Commend Ruling Affirming Their Constitutional Rights October 13, 2015, Philadelphia – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a comprehensive and stirring...
Medical Experts: Ba Odah “On the Precipice of Death” October 15, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a court to release a 74-pound...
New Jersey Muslims Commend Ruling Affirming Their Constitutional Rights October 13, 2015, Philadelphia – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a comprehensive and stirring...
October 7, 2015, New York – Today, the government officially informed Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed Kamin that the Periodic Review Board (PRB) has cleared him for release. Mr. Kamin, who is from...
Washington D.C. y Nueva York, 30 de septiembre del 2015 – Hoy, el Centro por los Derechos Constitucionales (CCR, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (...
Washington D.C. & New York, September 30, 2015 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) urged the Inter-American Commission on...