November 16, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the United States Supreme Court to hear the case U.S. v. Kjonaas . In an amicus brief filed today on behalf of...
October 29, 2010, Washington D.C – A heated discussion on Guantanamo took place this morning at the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. At the...
October 29, 2010, New York and Washington D.C. – Today, Mr. Djamel Ameziane, the first individual detained at Guantánamo to file a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human...
October 27, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York (CAIR-NY), and Educators for Civil Liberties, and Muslim...
October 4, 2010, New York and Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it is asking the Solicitor General for the government’s views on claims brought by hundreds of detainees...
October 4, 2010, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court said it would not take up a warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA) , filed by the Center for...
September 29, 2010 Washington and New York – Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed its decision to dismiss Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld , a civil lawsuit...
September 28, 2010, New York, NY – Discussions at the Human Rights Council (HRC) continued today following the release of a report of the fact-finding mission that investigated the May 31, 2010...
September 13 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that six new plaintiffs have joined a federal, class action lawsuit, Turkmen v. Ashcroft, challenging their...