Madrid/ Berlin/ New York, July 23, 2015 – The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, together with their...
July 17,2015, New York – Today, on the one-year anniversary of the police killing of Eric Garner, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: One year after Eric Garner...
July 9, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the New York City Police Department’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices filed his first interim report on the...
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
June 30, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to the Obama administration’s long-awaited announcement that it had appointed a new official at the...
Habeas Relief Sought for Eight-Year Hunger Striker June 25, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are seeking a court order granting his habeas...
June 17, 2015, New York – Today, in a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) thirteen years ago, in April 2002, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated claims against...
June 13, 2015, New York – In response to the vote today by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for its...
June 12, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys for four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become...
June 12, 2015, Champaign, IL – Today, a federal judge ordered the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) to release emails regarding UIUC’s firing of tenured professor Steven Salaita over...