Tucked amid jagged mountain ranges resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. This idyllic agrarian community serves as the backdrop of the original documentary “Waiting for Fahd”, which tells the...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Since 9/11, the United States has moved to legalize many policies that sanction and protect state violence, including in prisons from Guantánamo to Bagram. Using the context of the so-called "War on...
Updated: June 24, 2015
Join us for CCR's First Wednesday on August 5 th . We’ll update you on our stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York and discuss our work supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. CCR is...
Updated: July 22, 2015
August 3, 2015Over 1,000 people from across the country came together on July 31 and August 1 in Harlem, New York, to help vision and build the legal arm of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement. The #...
August 11, 2015There is not a little poetic justice in the fact that it was precisely at the time that a federal judge ruled that Steven Salaita's lawsuit against the University of Illinois could go forward,...
October 14, 2015Dear Mayor de Blasio: We understand from a recent report in The New York Times that you will be departing tomorrow on a journey to the State of Israel. According to the article, your purpose is to...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will join other advocates and activists on a panel at the US Human Rights Network (USHRN)'s biannual national human rights conference Advancing Human Rights...
Updated: November 17, 2015
November 11, 2015After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
Freedom Flicks in partnership with DCTV is excited to announce that we will co-host a free screening of Laura Poitras’ suspenseful documentary, CITIZENFOUR on Wednesday December 16th. Join us...
Updated: January 5, 2016
November 11, 2015After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
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