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Victim’s Representative Urges International Criminal Court to Open Investigation into U.S. Crimes in Afghanistan, Citing Guantánamo Detainee’s Declining Health

December 6, 2018

Submits Notice of Hearing Request in U.S. Court to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Physical and Mental Health December 6, 2018, The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the...

GITMO LAWYERS URGE REVIEW BOARD TO CLEAR PRISONER FOR RELEASE

November 20, 2018

November 20, 2018, Guantánamo – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) to recommend that Guled Hassan Duran be cleared for release from...

Court Orders NYPD to Film All Citizen Encounters with Body Cameras

August 10, 2018

Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Filming All Encounters August 10, 2018, New York — Late yesterday, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin using body-worn cameras to film...

Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Failure to Disclose Information on Gang Policing Policies

August 9, 2018

August 8, 2018, New York – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) maintains a database that classifies thousands of New Yorkers – 99 percent of whom are people of color – as members of local...

Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters

July 20, 2018

Order Calls for Pilot Program to Study Effectiveness of Documenting All Encounters July 19, 2018, New York — Today, a federal court ordered the NYPD to begin recording all police-citizen...

Civil Rights Attorneys Push Back on NYPD Objections to Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

July 17, 2018

July 17, 2018, New York – Last night, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and...

Gitmo Attorneys to Court: Find Perpetual Detention Unlawful and Order Release

July 11, 2018

July 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before a federal judge in a challenge to Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...

Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Buffalo Police Checkpoints and Discriminatory Traffic Enforcement

June 28, 2018

So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...

Attorneys Sue for Info on Hundreds of Muslim Ban Waiver Denials

June 28, 2018

CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA Lawsuit on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process Washington, DC – Following the United States Supreme Court decision to uphold the Muslim Ban, Muslim Advocates (MA) and...

CCR: Supreme Court Muslim Ban Ruling a "Historic Judicial Mistake"

June 26, 2018

Recent Yemen Waiver Report Cited in Breyer’s Dissent June 27, 2018, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s Muslim ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...

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Press Releases

Victim’s Representative Urges International Criminal Court to Open Investigation into U.S. Crimes in Afghanistan, Citing Guantánamo Detainee’s Declining Health

GITMO LAWYERS URGE REVIEW BOARD TO CLEAR PRISONER FOR RELEASE

Court Orders NYPD to Film All Citizen Encounters with Body Cameras

Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Failure to Disclose Information on Gang Policing Policies

Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters

Civil Rights Attorneys Push Back on NYPD Objections to Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

Gitmo Attorneys to Court: Find Perpetual Detention Unlawful and Order Release

Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Buffalo Police Checkpoints and Discriminatory Traffic Enforcement

Attorneys Sue for Info on Hundreds of Muslim Ban Waiver Denials

CCR: Supreme Court Muslim Ban Ruling a "Historic Judicial Mistake"

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