September 13, 2016Mahmood Khan had no idea that his brother had succumbed to "this poison" of terrorism. When Majid Khan was arrested by Pakistani security forces in 2003, family members — many of whom still live in...
September 21, 2016Taking on criminalization of animal-rights activists as terrorists, an attorney told the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday that even minor damage to a Whole Foods could trigger the law. The Center for...
September 14, 2016Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison...
September 9, 2016...“In the next few months, it will be interesting to see whether the administration uses all of its powers to release the many men left who are not yet cleared but who it has no intention of...
September 2, 2016It seems like only yesterday I was preparing for a news conference to give a statement on behalf of California Families Against Solitary Confinement announcing a landmark settlement in the case...
Fact sheet on Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a case filed in April 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with the 9/11...
Updated: September 8, 2021
October 7, 2016For 50 years, CCR has been a part of virtually every movement for civil and human rights. We have fought to redistribute power to the oppressed, the under-resourced, the criminalized, and the...
CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous will be presenting on the Media/Arts: Activism panel at Moving Media @ Brown , a two-day symposium celebrating, interrogating, and exploring the...
Updated: October 11, 2016
Appeals Court Ruled Officials Could Be Sued for Unconstitutional Profiling and Abuse; Ashcroft, Ziglar, Mueller Seeking Reversal October 11, 2016, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court...
October 11, 2016Today, nearly 14 years after the case began, the Supreme Court granted John Ashcroft and other Bush-era government officials’ requests to review CCR’s class action challenge to the post-9/11...
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