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An up-to-date list of major press coverage of CCR's work, "CCR in the News" provides summaries of each article's content, the publication and publication date, as well as a scanned version of the original article. The scanned articles can be viewed or downloaded as pdf files.

Currently "CCR in the News" covers the last two years of our major press coverage.

  1. Federal Immigration Enforcement Is Mandatory, Memo Says

    Los Angeles Times, January 8 2012 01/09/2012 - 13:56

    Two years after the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program was implemented, federal officials determined that choices available to local law enforcement agencies that wished to decline or limit their participation would be "streamlined" or "eliminated,"…

  2. Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor

    The New York Times, January 7 2012 01/07/2012 - 14:05

    Five years after his release, and near the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay detention center, CCR client Murat Kurnaz, and author of “Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo,”…

  3. Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting

    The Nation, January 4 2012 01/05/2012 - 17:34

    On January 11 it will have been a decade since the first of the men we once called “the worst of the worst” were brought to Guantánamo Bay. In the intervening years much has improved…

  4. FBI Tracking Videotapers As Terrorists?

    Los Angeles Times, December 29 2011 01/04/2012 - 17:41

    New documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by CCR client Ryan Shapiro show the FBI tracking animal videotapers and activists as domestic terrorists.

  5. WikiLeaks founder keeps tabs on Army hearing

    CNN, December 21 2011 01/04/2012 - 17:31

    The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed two appeals to the Army and may file additional appeals in an attempt to gain access to the closed-door sessions in the Manning case.

  6. Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?

    The New York Times, December 17 2011 12/20/2011 - 12:57

    Nicholas K. Peart, a witness in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights against racial profiling, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times. In this…

  7. Dutch Bishops Apologize for Sexual Abuse

    The New York Times, December 16 2011 12/20/2011 - 12:47

    Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands offered “sincere apologies” to victims of sexual mistreatment, hours after a report by an official commission said church officials had “failed to adequately deal with”…

  8. Lawsuit Challenges Animal Enterprise Terror Law as Unconstitutional

    The Los Angeles Times, December 15 2011 12/15/2011 - 19:02

    Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit Thursday in Massachusetts challenging the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, saying the controversial business protection law has the potential to criminalize many forms…

  9. Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson Team Up With Gerard Mannix Flynn on ‘James X’

    The Wall Street Journal, December 8 2011 12/09/2011 - 12:26

    Actors Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson team up with Dublin City Councilor and writer/artist Gerard Mannix Flynn, and with Culture Project, to present “James X,” a play exploring what years of silence …

  10. NYPD defy supreme court over clearance of Occupy Wall Street

    The Guardian, November 15 2011 11/16/2011 - 13:12

    Protesters accuse New York police of inciting violence by disobeying restraining order preventing further evictions.