The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: October 18, 2018
Introduction The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and despite the protections of our Constitution, many endure cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to...
Updated: June 18, 2010
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
December 9 marks the two-year anniversary of the release of the Executive Summary of the Senate Torture Report detailing some of the barbarity and brutality of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and...
Updated: December 9, 2016
The climate under President Trump is no ordinary political context, and requires no ordinary activism. Here we gather some resources to help targeted communities protect themselves, and to help us...
Updated: October 14, 2020
Hany Ibrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Yasser Ebrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Muhammad Tanvir is a lawful permanent resident of the United States who has lived here since 2002. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife, son and daughter, and parents, and runs a tire...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Office of the Governor PO Box 94004 Baton Rouge, LA 70804 June 15, 2020 Re: Black Leaders Support RISE St. James' Demand for a Moratorium on Petrochemical Industry...
Updated: June 15, 2020
Charles Watts is a 51-year-old Black man on whose behalf the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for “compassionate release” in federal court on November 9, 2021.
Updated: December 2, 2022
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