January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process January 23, 2018, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Muslim Advocates (MA) filed a Freedom of...
January 19, 2018, New York – Today, in a case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court to protect the ability of people detained in...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
December 21, 2017, New York – In response to emerging reports that the United States embassy in Djibouti has issued blanket denials or revocations of visas to Yemenis awaiting processing, the Center...
New Filing Seeks One-Year Extension of Court Monitoring Based on Violations November 20, 2017, New York, Palo Alto – Two years after the historic settlement of Ashker v. Governor of California marked...
Nueva evidencia es parte crítica de una demanda colectiva que acusa a los EE.UU. de prácticas ilegales 14 de noviembre 2017, Los Ángeles – Hoy, el grupo Al Otro Lado de defensa de los derechos de...
Newly-Filed Evidence Bolsters Lawsuit Charging Illegal U.S. Practices Nov.14, 2017, Los Angeles – Today, an immigrant rights group, Los Angeles-based Al Otro Lado, and six asylum seekers filed a...
Highest Court Rejects Private Prisons’ Petition to Limit Release of Government Documents October 10, 2017, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court denied a petition by private prison corporations...
September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...