nationality parents birth_date article_title name occupation
indian manmohan singh gursharan kaur 1969 amrit singh
 amrit singh lawyer
amrit singh

amrit singh -lrb- born 1969 -rrb- is a human rights lawyer for the national security and counterterrorism program at the open society justice initiative .
she was formerly a staff attorney at the aclu 's immigrants ' rights project .
as senior legal officer at the open society justice initiative , since 2009 , ms. singh directs a program that conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on national security-related human rights abuses across the globe .
she is counsel , among other cases , in `` al nashiri v. poland '' and `` al nashiri v. romania '' , lawsuits brought on behalf of guantanamo prisoner abd al-rahim al-nashiri before the european court of human rights that challenge the role of poland and romania in the cia 's secret detention program .
singh is the author of globalizing torture : cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition .
the 216-page report , released by osji in february 2013 , is the most comprehensive account to date of the human rights abuses associated with the cia 's post 9/11 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations as well as of the large number of foreign governments implicated in these operations .
the report received global media attention and was the subject of editorials in leading newspapers .
as staff attorney at the national office of the american civil liberties union in new york , from 2002-2009 , singh litigated numerous cases relating to immigrants ' rights and post 9/11-related abuses , including `` aclu v. department of defense '' , a landmark lawsuit which yielded public disclosure of the `` torture memos , '' among thousands of other government records exposing the systemic nature of the bush administration 's torture practices .
ms. singh was also counsel in `` khouzam v. chertoff '' a successful challenge to the u.s. government 's use of anti-torture diplomatic assurances to transfer non-citizens without due process to countries known to employ torture ; `` ali v. rumsfeld '' , a lawsuit against high-ranking officials on behalf of iraqi and afghan plaintiffs tortured in u.s. custody abroad , as well as a number of other cases challenging the prolonged detention of non-citizens in u.s. immigration custody .
ms. singh has testified before congress on the subject of `` enhanced interrogation techniques . ''
she is co-author , with jameel jaffer , of administration of torture : a documentary record from washington to abu ghraib and beyond .
-lrb- columbia university press , 2007 -rrb- .
prior to joining the aclu , singh served as a judicial law clerk to the honorable miriam goldman cedarbaum of the united states district court in the southern district of new york .
she is a graduate of the yale law school , oxford university , and cambridge university , u.k.
