July 18, 2013, New York – Following news reports that the ex-CIA chief in Milan who was convicted in absentia in Italy for his role in the 2003 rendition-to-torture of “Abu Omar”...
January 30, 2014, New York – Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking immediate release of...
May 1, 2014, New York – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court of appeals to allow a case to go forward against high-level Bush administration...
August 5, 2014, New York – Today, rights groups filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to comply...
November 21, 2014, New York – In response to yesterday’s announcement that, as part of his new immigration policy, President Obama has terminated the Secure Communities deportation...
Ghita Schwarz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on racial justice, immigrants' rights, and government misconduct and transparency. Her current cases...
Vincent Warren is a leading expert on racial injustice and discriminatory policing and is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He oversees the organization's groundbreaking...
Join North Carolina Stop Torture Now (NCSTN) as they confront Aero Contractors, the CIA's not-so-secret "torture flight" service, in their own backyard. Time 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM Aero...
Updated: October 18, 2007
CCR will argue on behalf of its client, Maher Arar,in his federal lawsuit challenging his rendition by the U.S. government, where he was tortured, forced to falsely confess, and released after one...
Updated: October 28, 2007
University of North Carolina School of Law Chapel Hill, NC 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM This symposium will address the legal propriety of extraordinary rendition, the alleged practice of transferring suspected...
Updated: November 16, 2007
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