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 5, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the news that Fawzi al Odah was being returned home to Kuwait from...
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,...
October 7, 2014, New York – Despite Mayor de Blasio’s claims that he had a new vision for the City of New York and his dismantling of the New York Police Department (NYPD) Muslim spying...
September 25, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Defense (DOD) and the State...
August 20, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Joseph Margulies filed a motion asking the Court of Military Commission Review to vacate...
July 24, 2014, New York – Attorneys at the CLEAR project (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility) of CUNY Law School and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
July 14, 2014, Washington, D.C. – In response to today’s en banc ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Al-Bahlul v. United States , the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
July 11, 2014, New York – Last night, dozens of organizations and individuals representing diverse interests and faiths filed amicus briefs in support of a lawsuit challenging the blanket...
July 9, 2014, New York – In response to news , reported today by Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept , that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on the Executive Director and co-...