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Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Challenge Corporate Impunity

December 20, 2011

December 20, 2011, New York – Last night, attorneys for Iraqi torture victims abused in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and other detention centers in Iraq challenged two private military...

Court Agrees Lawsuit by Man Charged With Forced Labor an Attempt to Silence Human Rights Group

December 15, 2011

December 15, 2011, Los Angeles, New York, Paris – Yesterday, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Bostwick & Jassy LLP defending the International Federation for...

Activists Challenge Animal Rights Terrorism Law as a Violation of Free Speech

December 15, 2011

December 15, 2011, Boston – Today, animal rights activists who allege their freedom of speech has been violated by the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) filed a lawsuit asking the...

Groups File FOIA Lawsuit Against FBI and DOJ Demanding Information On Warrantless Spying on Activists During Post-Katrina Effort

November 16, 2011

November 16, 2011, New Orleans - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in collaboration with the Loyola Law School’s Clinic in New Orleans, filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S...

New Documents Show Secure Communities Fuels FBI’s Rapidly Expanding Surveillance System While Ignoring States’ Concerns

November 10, 2011

November 10, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), and the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic released...

Human Rights Group Fights Back Against Legal Attack by Man Charged with Forced Labor

October 19, 2011

October 18, 2011 – Los Angeles, New York, Paris – Late last night, in a lawsuit brought against the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) by California-based agricultural labor...

Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement of Support for Occupy Wall Street

October 14, 2011

October 14, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: The Center for Constitutional Rights...

Members of Congress Send Letter of Inquiry to Bureau of Prisons over CMU Experimental Prison Units

October 13, 2011

October 13, 2011, New York and Washington—This week, Members of the House of Representatives issued a Congressional Letter of Inquiry to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) expressing their...

World Day Against the Death Penalty: Son of McCarthy-Era Execution Victims Equates Death Sentence with Torture

October 12, 2011

October 12, 2011, Paris, France – Today, Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, outspoken opponent of the death penalty, and the younger son of Ethel and Julius...

CCR Statement on Scheduled Troy Davis Execution

September 15, 2011

Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...

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Press Releases

Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Challenge Corporate Impunity

Court Agrees Lawsuit by Man Charged With Forced Labor an Attempt to Silence Human Rights Group

Activists Challenge Animal Rights Terrorism Law as a Violation of Free Speech

Groups File FOIA Lawsuit Against FBI and DOJ Demanding Information On Warrantless Spying on Activists During Post-Katrina Effort

New Documents Show Secure Communities Fuels FBI’s Rapidly Expanding Surveillance System While Ignoring States’ Concerns

Human Rights Group Fights Back Against Legal Attack by Man Charged with Forced Labor

Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement of Support for Occupy Wall Street

Members of Congress Send Letter of Inquiry to Bureau of Prisons over CMU Experimental Prison Units

World Day Against the Death Penalty: Son of McCarthy-Era Execution Victims Equates Death Sentence with Torture

CCR Statement on Scheduled Troy Davis Execution

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