December 11, 2015A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
December 12, 2015Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants held and abused in Brooklyn federal lockup after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have the right to sue Bush Administration bigs for their detention, the U.S. Second...
Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations join Alex Wagner to help figure out what really happened in Ottawa on Wednesday...
Updated: December 15, 2015
December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
December 18, 2015As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
As the Obama administration accelerates the transfer of men from Guantánamo, the closing of the infamous prison looks to be on the horizon. Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells...
Updated: January 21, 2016
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on January 6, 2016. CCR has led the legal battle to close Guantánamo for nearly 14 years, representing clients in two Supreme Court cases and organizing and...
Updated: December 29, 2015
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on January 11. The recent spike in Islamophobia, triggered by the tragic events of Paris and San...
Updated: December 29, 2015
January 11 marks the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison , an offshore facility created to isolate, dehumanize, and indefinitely detain Muslim men and boys swept up in post-9...
Updated: January 19, 2016
January 4, 2016Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
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