December 23, 2014, New York – In response to findings and recommendations released today by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure...
December 17, 2014, Berlin – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a criminal complaint filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) against...
December 9, 2014, New York – Based on early reports on the release of the executive summary and the conclusions and findings of the Senate inquiry into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, Center for...
December 5, 2014, New York – In response to reports that Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh has been held in solitary confinement in a Michigan jail for twelve days, the Center for...
November 21, 2014, Olympia, WA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Davis Wright Tremaine LLP filed a brief at the request of the Washington Supreme Court urging the...
November 21, 2014, New York – In response to yesterday’s announcement that, as part of his new immigration policy, President Obama has terminated the Secure Communities deportation...
November 11, 2014, Geneva – Today, Murat Kurnaz, tortured and detained by the U.S. for five years at Kandahar and then Guantanamo, addressed the U.S. government and the members of the Committee...
November 6, 2014, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel at the People’s Law Office and the Federal Defender Program in Chicago filed a motion to...
November 6, 2014, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following response to the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not be opening a full...
October 22, 2014, New York – In response to today’s guilty verdicts against all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 killings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad,...