January 29, 2015, Chicago, IL — A professor who was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign because of his tweets criticizing the Israeli...
January 20, 2015, Olympia, WA – The constitutionality of a Washington State law protecting citizens from meritless lawsuits that undermine free speech rights was defended today in oral...
December 31, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to news that Palestine has moved to join the International Criminal...
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 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, 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...