This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
May 23, New York – In response to President Obama’s speech this afternoon, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The president’s stated reengagement...
Join us at 9 a.m. on March 12 in D.C. for a critical thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis at Guantánamo...
New Hearing for Sharqawi Al Hajj Too Little, Too Late Unless Obama Administration Acts Now, Attorneys Say November 15, New York – Today, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced that it has granted a...
May 9, 2018, New York – In response to today’s Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel to head the CIA, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Gina Haspel could not...
January 11, 2012, Washington, DC – Today, on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first detained men at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional...
January 29, 2015, Chicago, IL — A professor who was fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign because of his tweets criticizing the Israeli...
In Unprecedented Testimony, Guantánamo Prisoner Majid Khan Finally Tells His Story at Sentencing Hearing October 28, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ Today, a man who was disappeared and tortured at...
On May 3, 2007, Time Magazine announced that Canadian rendition victim and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Maher Arar has made this year's Time 100, a "list of 100 men and women...
June 2, 2015, New York – Today, unclassified information detailing the CIA’s torture of Guantánamo prisoner Majid Khan was made public for the first time by Reuters, including the fact that he was...
