October 15, 2021From our offices on occupied Lenape territory in lower Manhattan, we stand in solidarity with the nearly seven million Indigenous people in this country...
February 8, 2022The ruling extends a historic 2015 settlement agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons.
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...
May 11, 2022Jim Crow juries helped Louisiana reproduce a system of white domination following the Civil War
Rufus Henry, a Black Man, was convicted by 10 white jurors as two Black jurors dissented
The U.S. government is still holding him at Guantánamo even though he completed his 10-year sentence on March 1.
Join the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies , the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University , and the Center for Constitutional Rights for an in-person ...
Updated: October 20, 2022
Charles Watts, sentenced under obsolete version of “stacking” law, wins motion in federal court January 4, 2023, New York – Today, a 52-year-old Black man sentenced to 92 years in prison for...
February 2, 2023We are thrilled to share this news: Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was transferred from Guantánamo to Belize today. He is the first “high-value” detainee to be released, and the...
March 21, 2023Twenty years after the U.S. government invaded Iraq, we renew our call for reparations
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