July 12, 2017, Los Angeles – Today an immigrant rights group and several asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank in defense of the Alien Tort...
June 26, 2017, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to review Trump’s Muslim ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: While we are gratified that...
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...
Historic Case Has Broken New Legal Ground, Documented Lively’s Campaign of Persecution in Uganda June 6, 2017, New York – Yesterday, a federal court minced no words in affirming that U.S.-based anti-...
June 2, 2017, New York – In response to reports that the Trump administration has begun returning copies of the Senate Torture Report to the Senate in an effort to keep them from being made public,...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
Board Will Not Reconsider Prisoner for Release May 4, 2017, New York – Today, lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) criticized a decision by the Guantánamo Periodic Review Board (PRB...
April 13, New York – In response to the Trump administration dropping the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb in Afghanistan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Not even 100...
(Kabul, New York, The Hague) Ten years after the opening of a preliminary examination on Afghanistan by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor into the international crimes...