October 28, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL addressed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)...
Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination September 15, 2022, New York ‒ A national coalition of advocacy and legal groups today submitted a complaint...
August 18, 2022, New York – In response to Israel’s overnight military raids of the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights organizations in Ramallah in the occupied Palestinian...
Ashley Diamond Home at Last August 9, 2022 – Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who has twice sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for refusing to protect her from sexual assault...
August 2, 2022, New York – In response to the U.S. government’s extrajudicial killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: More...
In rare move after courts denied justice, BOP provides funds for six men who were abused, racially and religiously profiled July 5, New York – In a rare move, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has...
In a new submission to the court, Salah Hammouri details years of persecution and new tactics to forcibly transfer Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem May 16, 2022, Jerusalem/Paris/New York – A...
70 Percent of People Serving These Sentences for Felony Murder are Black April 13, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA ‒ Today, a lawsuit brought by people serving Death-By-Incarceration sentences, commonly known...
Sufyian Barhoumi Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016 April 2, 2022 — The U.S. government made public today that Sufyian Barhoumi was sent home to Algeria, nearly...
Attorneys Say He Must Now Be Transferred From Guantánamo Without Delay March 11, 2022, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Convening Authority for Military Commissions approved a final...