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5 Mar 2012, 1:45 pm by Mike Scarcella
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]
27 Feb 2012, 2:19 pm by Suzanne Ito
In a statement that we issued in response to the news, Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project said, "This new report about the use of federal money to spy on Muslim communities with no suspicion of wrongdoing raises significant new questions about White House oversight of how its funds were used by the NYPD, for what purposes and whether those uses comply with the law. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 2:31 pm by Suzanne Ito
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]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
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]
21 Oct 2011, 6:38 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
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]
8 Sep 2011, 9:06 am by Raffaela Wakeman
” 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]
3 Aug 2011, 2:48 pm by Steve Gosset, ACLU
Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, called the strategy a “step in the right direction. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 1:57 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
As Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in a statement today: "Unlike the discredited military commissions, federal courts are able to achieve justice and unquestionably have jurisdiction over the material support and conspiracy crimes with which Warsame is charged. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 10:38 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
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]
17 Mar 2011, 9:59 am
As we have each year since our founding ((here, here, here, here, and here), IntLawGrrls is proud today to highlight women who will speak March 23-26 at the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Society of International Law. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 3:16 am
"Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Modern Challenges to Use of Force Law": Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker (Pacific McGeorge) and Hina Shamsi (NYU), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Mary Ellen O'Connell (Notre Dame), moderator.? [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 8:00 pm
Santa Clara Hina Shamsi (Santa Clara), National Security and Human Rights: The Challenges Ahead. [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]
12 Feb 2008, 11:59 am
National Security Project Staff Attorney Hina Shamsi just returned from Guantánamo a few days ago; you can read her observations on our DailyKos Diary. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 1:13 pm
Today Hina Shamsi gives an extraordinary account of yesterday's military commission hearing against Omar Khadr in Daily Kos. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 10:36 am
On Saturday, Hina Shamsi, one of the staff attorneys with our National Security Project, travelled to Guantánamo Bay to observe the military commissions hearings of Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
Hina Shamsi is back from Guantánamo after observing the military commission proceedings of Salim Ahmed Hamdan for two days. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
From Cuba to Manhattan, the ACLU will be present to observe, record and comment on the events: National Security Project staff attorney Hina Shamsi is in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where she'll observe tomorrow's military commission hearing of Salim Ahmed Hamdan (of Hamdan v. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 9:00 pm
About this mistrial, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project staff attorney Hina Shamsi wrote:  "HLF was the nation's largest Muslim charity before the government shut it down and accused it of providing "material support" to a foreign terrorist organization. [read post]