March 31, 2011 - In 1976, 17-year-old Joelito Filártiga was abducted and later tortured to death by Americo Norberto Peña-Irala, the inspector general in the Department of Investigation...
March 24, 2011, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) launched litigation against two United States agencies seeking information relating to the coup d’...
March 21, 2011, New York – Last Friday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report finding that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has engaged in “a pattern or...
Washington, DC – Top human rights organizations, actors, musicians and activists, including Viggo Mortensen, Roseanne Cash, Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights, sent...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
March 16, 2011 - Prominent lawyers and law professors today wrote to Cheryl Mills, U.S. Department of State Chief of Staff, criticizing United States Government interference with former Haitian...
March 7, 2011, New York – In response to the Obama administration’s announcement today that it has ordered the Department of Defense to lift a stay on new charges in military commissions...
February 25, 2011, New York – In response to news that the full panel of Judges of the Audencia Nacional (Spain’s High Court) rejected a Spanish prosecutor’s effort to stop an...
February 16, 2011 – Today, attorneys filed a federal civil rights suit in New Orleans on behalf of nine anonymous plaintiffs convicted under Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature law and...
February 11, 2011 – In response to the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, CCR offered the following statement: "The Center for Constitutional rights offers its sincere congratulations to the...