American Civil Liberties Union on Abu Gharib Torture -Video
"widespread abuse", states ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh.
 | 14 min - Jun 7, 2007 -   (739 ratings) and widespread abuse", states ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh. She hopes the photos release will lead to a proper inquiry...Abu Ghraib Iraq Occupation Torture US |
Amrit Singh is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, where she has litigated cases relating to the torture and abuse of prisoners held in U.S. custody abroad, the government's use of diplomatic assurances to return individuals to countries known to employ torture, the indefinite and mandatory detention of immigrants, and post 9/11 discrimination against immigrants. She is counsel, among other cases, in ACLU v. Dep't of Defense, litigation under the Freedom of Information Act for records concerning the treatment and detention of prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantánamo Bay and other locations abroad; and Ali v. Rumsfeld, a lawsuit brought against senior U.S. government officials on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners who were tortured in U.S . custody. Prior to joining the Immigrants' Rights Project, Singh litigated a variety of racial justice issues as the Karpatkin Fellow at the National Legal Department of the ACLU, including post 9/11 airline discrimination against brown-skinned passengers and the failure of the state of Montana to provide adequate legal counsel to indigent criminal defendants. Prior to joining the ACLU, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Singh is a graduate of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School.Visit:
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 On the day her dad had a memorable meeting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, thousands of miles away in New York City, Amrit Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's youngest daughter, was part of a discussion on 'Courtroom perspectives on the war on terror.' Amrit is an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which advocates individual rights by litigating, legislating, and educating the American public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom. Her outspoken campaign against the Bush administration's contempt for civil liberties earned her a front page report in The Wall Street Journal some weeks ago. Amrit, 36, a graduate of the prestigious Yale Law School, is the only one of the prime minister's three daughters who lives abroad. The eldest daughter teaches at a college in New Delhi and is married to a fellow academic while the middle daughter works for an NGO and is married to an Indian Police Service officer. Amrit is a consistent critic of US President George W Bush -- who is known to greatly respect her father -- and has raised issues of abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. She also helped win a legal decision to have the Pentagon release photographs illustrating this abuse in 2005. Photograph: Mohammed Jaffer/Snaps India |
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