June 12, 2015, Champaign, IL – Today, a federal judge ordered the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) to release emails regarding UIUC’s firing of tenured professor Steven Salaita over...
June 2, 2015, New York – Today, unclassified information detailing the CIA’s torture of Guantánamo prisoner Majid Khan was made public for the first time by Reuters, including the fact that he was...
May 18, 2015, New York and Chicago – Today Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (Palestine Legal), in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), released findings on the rising trend...
May 5, 2015, New York – The following statement was issued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The crisis in Yemen is only deepening. Innocent Yemenis are caught between the brutal war...
April 28, 2015, New York – In response to a report issued today by the American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ) on the firing of Professor Steven Salaita, his attorneys at the...
April 2, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, in a case seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the torture and other serious mistreatment of three French citizens formerly detained at...
March 5, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, at an appeals hearing at the Chambre de l’instruction de la Cour d’appel de Paris, the attorney for former Guantánamo detainees...
March 4, 2015, New York – Esteemed professor and intellectual Dr. Cornel West has cancelled a high-profile lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in support of a...
February 19, 2015, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court to dismiss a terrorism indictment against two animal rights activists alleged...
February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...