February 11, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to eight New York City Council Members, in response to their threat to...
Updated: February 11, 2013
August 2013As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
May 2014The FBI has used the No Fly List to coerce American Muslims into spying on their community. In mid-April, after an eight-year, "Kafkaesque" ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official...
In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the death penalty...
Updated: November 18, 2013
May 2012In 2002, Maher Arar was stopped while on a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his way home to Canada. US officials detained Arar for two weeks and then told him that, based on...
*Please note new date!* Please join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir and the No Separate Justice Campaign on March 2nd as we continue to build a growing voice of people of conscience and shine a...
Updated: February 26, 2015
Abu Ghraib’s Legacy of Torture In April 2004, shocking photographs depicting the humiliation and torture of prisoners in the early days of the Iraq war were made public. Images of men in hoods,...
Updated: June 1, 2015
July 8, 2015, New York – In response to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing, today, of an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate killings by police of unarmed civilians and with...
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture, and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our montly vigil on October 5. Organizers, advocates, and attorneys will make connections...
Updated: October 2, 2015
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on November 2. The November vigil will focus on the case of the Holy Land Five (HL5), a charity...
Updated: October 28, 2015
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