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10 Apr 2012, 6:47 am
'" You can watch the ACLU's Hina Shamsi here on MSNBC explaining why the military commissions fall short. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 7:44 pm
Hina Shamsi, a lawyer with the US-based Human Rights First, explained this month that the justification for refusing to treat insurgents as combatants in a legitimate war is that the US occupation handed over "sovereignty" to the Iraqi government in June 2004. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 10:38 am
Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a statement today: “These documents are remarkable because they show just how questionable the government’s basis has been for detaining hundreds of people, in some cases indefinitely, at Guantánamo. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
Activist Linda Sarsour sees the struggle of Muslim Americans on a continuum with civil rights battles past and present. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 8:37 am
On Wednesday, Hina Shamsi will take part in an Intelligence Squared debate on the question "Does the president have constitutional authority under the due process clause to kill U.S. citizens abroad, or is it a violation of this clause to unilaterally decide to target and kill Americans?" [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:46 am
” Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project Hina Shamsi stated: For decades, rights groups have documented the secrecy and unfairness of the No Fly List program and its devastating consequences for people’s lives, yet the program has remained a black box. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 1:45 pm
Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, in a statement this afternoon said Holder presented a "chillingly broad" authority to conduct targeted killings of civilians suspected of terror activity abroad. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 9:06 am
” The ACLU’s Hina Shamsi argues at the Guardian that the war on terror has only served to empower our enemies, as it “rides roughshod over the rule of law,” while Vincent Warren, the Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, writes at CNN.com that 9/11 marks the beginning of the decline of our democracy. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 3:56 pm
As Hina Shamsi, ACLU National Security Project director stated in a statement we issued at the time, “Our nation’s civilian and military courts have historically recognized that the truth, no matter how ugly, is better aired than concealed from the public. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 2:31 pm
In a statement that we issued about the news today, Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project said, "These documents show that the NYPD has run amok, engaging in secret multi-state domestic surveillance of innocent people based on crude religious and racial profiling. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 4:55 pm
Also today, ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi went on Democracy Now to detail the many problems with the government’s explanation: Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a long-term cookie on your computer. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 10:47 am
In Brussels yesterday, several members of the European Parliament (EP) hosted a first-ever briefing on the topic with the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi and Jamil Dakwar, and the U.N. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 4:28 pm
The ACLU's Hina Shamsi adds: "Every one of the highly-experienced military and civilian criminal defense counsel we talked to today (together, they have decades of experience) said that it was unprecedented for alleged co-conspirators to be permitted to mingle and talk in this fashion. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 2:54 pm
ACLU attorneys Hina Shamsi, Ben Wizner, and Jamil Dakwar have observed Khadr's military commission hearings as human rights observers at Guantánamo, and have blogged extensively about the proceedings. [read post]
28 Aug 2024, 12:05 pm
Since this nation’s founding, the executive branch has been granted — or has claimed — immense power to enforce the law, including the power to surveil, investigate, and impose criminal or other sanctions that deprive individuals of their freedoms. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 4:50 am
(left to right): The ACLU’s Hina Shamsi, Adina Ellis, Cecillia Wang, Esha Bhandari, Louise Melling, Jenn Sturm, Melanie Garunay. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am
In a conference call, Hina Shamsi, the director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Security Project, said the documents showed that the loosened rules had led to an "extremely pernicious" practice of ascribing propensity to crimes to people based on their ethnicity or religion. [read post]
4 May 2016, 11:00 am
Esto es algo grande para nuestros clientes”, explicó Hina Shamsi, directora del Programa de Seguridad Nacional de la ACLU. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am
In a conference call, Hina Shamsi, the director of the A.C.L.U.'s National Security Project, said the documents showed that the loosened rules had led to an "extremely pernicious" practice of ascribing propensity to crimes to people based on their ethnicity or religion. [read post]
4 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
The director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, suggests that the relocation must be extended to Nutrition and Education International staff who are also at risk as a result of revelations about the drone strike.B. [read post]
