Center for Constitutional Rights

Mahmoud Khalil ripped over attempt to ‘justify’ Oct. 7 attack in Ezra Klein, NYT interview: ‘Must be immediately deported’

August 7, 2025 Carl Campanile, Priscilla DeGregory, Josh Christenson and Chris Nesi

(NY Post) Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to “justify” the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview — with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration’s case seeking to kick him out […]

Mahmoud Khalil seeks $20 million — or an apology — from Trump for 3-month detention Khalil filed a claim against the government on Thursday in a bid to stop its continued deportation campaign against pro-Palestine protesters on college campuses.

July 10, 2025 Erik Uebelacker

(Courthouse News) After 104 days in federal immigration custody, a stint that forced him to miss the birth of his first child, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is seeking $20 million from the Trump administration for his “politically motivated arrest,” according to his […]

Muslim men on No Fly List lose US appeal over treatment by FBI agents

October 29, 2024 Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) A U.S. appeals court said three Muslim men cannot sue FBI agents after being placed on the “No Fly List” for refusing to become government informants. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the 16 agents were protected […]

Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants

August 2, 2024 Ellen Knickmeyer

(AP) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The move comes two days after the military […]

Feds settle suit alleging abuse by men detained after 9/11

July 5, 2022 Gary Fields

(AP) The Justice Department on Tuesday settled a decades-old lawsuit filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in […]

Ex-Maryland man who joined al-Qaida sentenced at Guantanamo

October 29, 2021 Ben Fox

(AP) A military jury imposed a sentence of 26 years Friday on a former Maryland man who admitted joining al-Qaida and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. But under a plea deal, the man could be released as soon […]

Pro-Palestine groups denounce PayPal-ADL research into extremism funding Youth group warns 'lifeline' financial dealings for Palestinians could be 'profoundly disrupted' if ADL plays a role in deeming what transactions are legitimate

July 27, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Eye) Pro-Palestine groups have urged PayPal to cancel its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which seeks to investigate how extremist and hate movements in the United States use financial platforms. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) said in a statement […]

NJ Muslims on presidential candidate Bloomberg: ‘He doesn’t know the hurt he caused’

February 18, 2020 Hannan Adely

(Bergen Record) Even before he arrived at his job at Fort Dix one recent morning, Army Sgt. Syed Farhaj Hassan had already been bombarded by a Michael Bloomberg ad about gun control on television, and a radio piece about Bloomberg’s tenure as […]

Three former Guantanamo prisoners were cleared by the U.S. — but will Ottawa let them join their Canadian wives? A ruling in the case of Ayub Mohammed, who wants to move to Montreal, could have an impact on two other Uyghur men once held at Guantanamo

May 7, 2019 Tom Blackwell

(National Post) It’s been more than a decade since U.S. authorities freed Ayub Mohammed from their Cuban prison, having decided he was not, after all, an “enemy combatant.” In that time the ethnic Uyghur from China has earned a business degree from […]