September 22, 2021, New York — In response to news reports that the Biden administration intends to hire private contractors for detention facilities in Guantánamo Bay for Haitian refugees seeking...
New Memorandum from Leading Civil Rights Advocates Documents the Most Egregious Federal Programs that Surveil, Profile, and Criminalize Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian...
Site Provides Historical Context and Resources Around Reckoning With 20 Years of Injustice September 2, 2021, New York – Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Calls for U.S. to be held accountable and offer asylum August 16, 2021, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights expresses its profound sorrow and concern for the people of Afghanistan, who...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild launched the Sixth Edition of the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook (JLH)—a free legal resource for prisoners and their family...
July 19, 2021, New York – In response to news that Abdul Latif Nasser has been transferred out of Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are relieved that...
July 13, 2021, Newark, N.J. – Fifteen immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody today lodged a multi-individual complaint with the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Office...
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
May 17, 2021, New York 一 Today, the New York State Senate and Assembly introduced the Dignity Not Detention Act , a bill that would end existing and future contracts with Immigration and Customs...
May 12, 2021, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people across historic Palestine and in the diaspora who, 73 years...