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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 Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki

September 30, 2011

September 30, 2011, New York—Today, in response to the news that a missile attack by an American drone aircraft had killed U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen, the Center for Constitutional...

CCR Joins Groups in Urging General Assembly to Submit UN Fact-Finding Mission Report on Gaza to the Security Council

September 29, 2011

September 29, 2011 , New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has joined the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and...

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...

CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla

September 2, 2011

September 2, 2011, New York – In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident , which was...

CCR Appeals Warrantless Wiretapping Ruling

August 30, 2011

August 30, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the first brief was filed in the appeal in CCR v. Obama, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the...

CCR Says NYC Must Act Immediately to Protect Prisoners at Rikers Island from Hurricane Irene

August 27, 2011

August 27, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news not only that Mayor Bloomberg announced the City of New York does not plan to evacuate the 12,000 prisoners at Rikers Island in advance of...

CCR and NLG Release Newly Expanded and Updated Edition of Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook and Launch New Website

August 18, 2011

New York, August 11 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with the National Lawyers Guild, launched an interactive website to supplement the release of the Fifth Edition...

CCR Joins Amicus in Case Challenging DNA Sampling of Arrestees

July 26, 2011

July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...

Palestinian Community Leaders Urge UN and UNESCO to Oppose Israeli Construction of “Museum of Tolerance”

July 21, 2011

July 21, 2011, New York, Jerusalem – Forty-five prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem and Israel, including Christian and Muslim religious figures, politicians, businesspeople and civil society...

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Press Releases

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

CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki

CCR Joins Groups in Urging General Assembly to Submit UN Fact-Finding Mission Report on Gaza to the Security Council

CCR Statement on Scheduled Troy Davis Execution

CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla

CCR Appeals Warrantless Wiretapping Ruling

CCR Says NYC Must Act Immediately to Protect Prisoners at Rikers Island from Hurricane Irene

CCR and NLG Release Newly Expanded and Updated Edition of Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook and Launch New Website

CCR Joins Amicus in Case Challenging DNA Sampling of Arrestees

Palestinian Community Leaders Urge UN and UNESCO to Oppose Israeli Construction of “Museum of Tolerance”

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