November 14, 2013, New York – In response to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ denial of District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s request to be heard on the Court of Appeals’...
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, U.S.-based civil rights and human rights groups signed an open letter to President Obama urging the administration to make good on its stated commitment to...
February 9, 2012, New York, NY – In response to Tuesday’s reintroduction in the Ugandan parliament of a bill that would require the death penalty for consensual sex between persons of the...
August 14, 2013, Springfield, MA – Today, in a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge ruled that...
December 20, 2013, New York – Today, 33 representatives of U.S. human rights, labor and faith organizations sent a letter to Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western...
September 3, 2013, New York – Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at...
July 23, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in reference to the upcoming Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution,...
April 11, 2013, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, 25 prominent human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the swift closure of Guant...
September 10, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the news that a ninth man has died in detention at Guantá...
September 11, 2012, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to the Defense Department’s announcement today of the death of Adnan Latif...
