September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...
Featuring Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Consitutional Rights; Joshua Dratel, attorney and co-editor of The Enemy Combatants Papers; Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU; and...
The Crackdown on Journalists Through pre-emptive raids and mass coordinated actions, local and federal law enforcement interfered with the media’s ability to report on public protest, civic...
AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
The NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey Download the factsheet on the NYPD's Surveillance and Targeting of Muslims in New Jersey (updated Feb. 2015) here . What is the NYPD...
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
By Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Like my client Fahd Ghazy, 90 out of the 164 men still at Guantánamo are from Yemen. Over one-third of all Guantá...
As the Obama administration continues rallying its allies to hold Russia to its international law obligations in Ukraine, the international community had an opportunity this week to turn the...
The Bush administration’s plan to invade Iraq spurred the largest outcry and anti-war protests in the history of the world. More than ten years and hundreds of thousands of lives later, U.S. veterans...
