By Michael Ratner,  President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights America, Bradley Manning stood up for your right to know what the government does in your name and with your tax dollars. The truth was ugly, eye-opening, embarrassing for the Bush and Obama administrations alike. It also came at a high cost: As of today, Bradley [...]

by Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights . This week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it will launch an assessment of its use of solitary confinement in the U.S. prison system, amid growing scrutiny of the practice. The use of solitary confinement is nothing new. In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. [...]

by Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights . Adnan Latif and Mohammed al-Hamiri arrived at Guantánamo through strikingly similar twists of fate.  Adnan Latif is the most recent of nine men – four since President Obama took office – to die in U.S. custody at Guantánamo. Mohammed al-Hamiri is a Yemeni prisoner I have [...]

Despite Crippling Financial Blockade And Other Efforts To Set Them Back, Publishers Of Biggest Leaks In Journalistic History Press On By Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights December 19, 2012 – Six months ago today, Julian Assange was forced to seek asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition to the United States via [...]

By Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program Manager, Center for Constitutional Rights Michigan voters spoke loud and clear last month when they repealed their state’s Emergency Manager Law. They said no to unconstitutional power grabs, where unelected appointees can unilaterally rule over entire towns or even dissolve them. But, true to form, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is [...]

By Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights Bradley Manning is being punished – and tortured – for a crime that amounts to believing one’s highest duty is to the American people and not the American government By the time the 23-year-old soldier’s court martial starts on February 4, 2013, Bradley Manning will have [...]

By Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights One thing brings these four men together. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz—they are all survivors of the systematic torture program the Bush administration authorized and carried out in locations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantánamo, and numerous prisons and CIA [...]

by Vincent Warren, Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights Two big things happened in the last week, and they’re both going to require our attention for the next four years and beyond: the national election repudiated religious conservatives and handed Obama a second term, and Hurricane Sandy destroyed many thousands of lives. Our allies [...]

by Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights When you see politicians on television cheering each other on about the use of drones, it is all made to seem so abstract and clean. The reality is quite a different story and raises some fundamental questions that are being glossed over: Is it lawful [...]

With the DOJ’s failure to prosecute the Bush Six and other torturers, Spain has a legal obligation to ensure impunity does not cross borders It has become abundantly clear that the U.S. government has no intention to prosecute anyone within its ranks for the Bush administration’s torture program. This unwillingness underscores the urgent need for other [...]

Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the news that a ninth man has died in detention at Guantánamo. With great sadness, the Center for Constitutional Rights condemns the fact that yet another detained man – the fourth on President Obama’s watch – has died at Guantánamo Bay, [...]

Recent Report Shows Mexico a Destination for Priests Escaping Charges of Rape and Sexual Violence in U. S   By Pam Spees, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights   While nothing is being done to protect the children of Mexico still being assaulted by Catholic clergy, plenty of preparations have taken place for this weekend’s papal [...]

By Bill Quigley.  Bill teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans and works with the Center for Constitutional Rights.  A version of this article with sources is available. You can reach Bill at quigley77@gmail.com. Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland.   Manning, who was nominated for [...]

By Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans.

“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all [...]

This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon, who is currently in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba visiting one of his clients. January 11, 2012 Today marks ten years since the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay.  As fate would have it, I am here for a week visiting one of [...]

by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights “Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of Arundhati Roy, the Indian author and activist, but they could also be those of anyone trying to draw up a balance sheet of the [...]

By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Bill Quigley , Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Nations and organizations around the globe observed yesterday as International Migrants Day . Twenty-two years ago, on December 18, 1990 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the [...]

Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement   December 16, 2011, New York – In light of a report released today by an official commission investigating clergy sex abuse throughout the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement:

The extent of child rape and other sexual violence revealed in the [...]

The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the larger encampments in New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles are shut down by the police, activists have been searching for the tactics to move beyond Occupation [...]

By Peter Weiss, Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights Chile’s 9/11happened in 1973, with the violent overthrow of the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende by army chief Agusto Pinochet. Among the many victims of this violence were two young Americans, Charles Horman, a journalist and filmmaker, and Frank Teruggi, a student. Both were arrested without [...]