Sahr MuhammedAlly is a senior associate in Human Rights First’s Law & Security Program. Sahr works through research, litigation and advocacy to ensure a greater understanding of and respect for human rights in U.S. national security policy.

Before joining Human Rights First, Sahr was an Alan R. Finberg Fellow and consultant at Human Rights Watch, where she conducted fact-finding research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan, and authored reports on counterterrorism and administrative detention policies. As a consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union, Sahr authored the ACLU’s shadow report to the U.N. Committee against Torture on U.S compliance with the Convention against Torture. From 2002-2004, Sahr was an associate with the Gibbons law firm in New York and undertook pro bono work on indefinite detention of noncitizens. Sahr has also worked with the International Rescue Committee and Human Rights in China.

Sahr is the author of Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the U.S. at Home and Abroad; Detained without Trial: Ill-Treatment of Internal Security Act Detainees in Malaysia; Convicted Before Trial: Indefinite Detention Under Malaysia’s Emergency Ordinance; and Always on Call: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia. Sahr graduated with a B.A. in Politics from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 and received her law degree from Brooklyn Law School, cum laude, in 2002.

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