Amrit Singh
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Amrit Singh joined the Open Society Justice Initiative in 2009 as the senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism.

Previously, she served as a staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She was counsel, among other cases, in ACLU v. Dep’t of Defense, which resulted in the public disclosure of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. overseas. She is co-author (with Jameel Jaffer) of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Prior to joining the ACLU, Singh served as a law clerk to the Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before embarking on her legal career, she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Yale Law School.

Blog Entries by Amrit Singh

Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Europe and Extraordinary Rendition

Posted November 15, 2010 | 15:11:36 (EST)

An Amnesty International Report released this week calls for a break in the conspiracy of silence surrounding Europe's complicity in CIA-driven torture and extraordinary renditions. The European Court's pointed questions to the Macedonian government in Khaled El-Masri's case may well prove to be the catalyst for such a...

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Accountability for Torture: Europe Vs. United States

Posted June 15, 2010 | 13:23:10 (EST)

The United States Supreme Court continues to close its doors to victims of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. This week, the court declined to review Maher Arar's case, just as it did in 2007 for Khaled El-Masri. But Europe's top human rights court remains open for justice.

El-Masri, a...

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Release Photos of Other Abu Ghraibs

Posted March 9, 2009 | 11:31:22 (EST)

The Justice Department’s release last week of Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos was an important step towards exposing past abuses of executive power and restoring government transparency. But still lingering out there, attracting much less attention, yet just as crucial for us to see, are still-secret photos of...

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Deportation to Torture

Posted June 13, 2007 | 11:24:00 (EST)

This past Memorial Day, Sameh Khouzam celebrated the holiday like many Americans -- by spending the day with friends in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he lives and works as a controller of a real estate company. The next morning, he went to the York County Jail for a routine check-in...

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