Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
June 2, 2021... granted release by the PRB. Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights , which has represented several detainees, says ... Read the full piece here .
In recent months, Palestinians in the occupied territory have once again been feeling the devastating impact of a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, forced evictions, and mass arrests. Placing this...
Updated: July 6, 2021
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
This online panel discussion is part of “ The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones ,” a biweekly online speaker series from July–October 2021. In conjunction with...
Updated: September 28, 2021
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
July 19, 2021, New York – In response to news that Abdul Latif Nasser has been transferred out of Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are relieved that...
July 22, 2021..."The more individuals who are cleared to be released, the easier it is to close Guantánamo, because the detainee population gets smaller and smaller every day." Yet the Justice Department is at...
Calls for U.S. to be held accountable and offer asylum August 16, 2021, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights expresses its profound sorrow and concern for the people of Afghanistan, who...
August 20, 2021...Re “ Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully, for America and Afghanistan ” (news analysis, front page, Aug. 18): The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan may illustrate the failure of the U.S. response...
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