October 23, 2015President Obama broke his cycle of empty veto threats over Guantanamo on Thursday, sending a defense authorization bill back to Congress with a defiant message: “Let’s do this right.” It was only the...
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
October 28, 2015It is worrying that James B. Comey, head of an agency ostensibly committed to evidence-based decision making, is trafficking in vague notions about a “Ferguson effect,” ... Read the full letter here.
October 28, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed a district court ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive...
October 28, 2015Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...
October 29, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a federal district court decision, which essentially ruled prisoners who were confined in Communication Management Units (CMUs) did not have their...
Hassan case, client, Baher Azmy, Featured on Al Jazeera
Updated: November 2, 2015
November 2, 2015A freshly unsealed war court document shows an American-educated former al-Qaida courier turned government witness has agreed to postpone his Guantánamo sentencing hearing by three years. Majid Khan...
November 3, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York launching a website on the Joint Remedial Process that...
Rachel Meeropol, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains why the ‘ The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook ’ is important- stating prisons have an ‘incredible amount of...
Updated: November 4, 2015
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