Amrit Singh
Senior Legal Officer at Open Society Foundation- Claim this Profile
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Open Society Foundation
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Legal Officer
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2009 - Present
directs a progam 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
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ACLU
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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staff attorney
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2003 - 2009
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,”[8] among thousands of other government records[9] exposing the systemic nature of the Bush administration’s torture practices
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