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Amrit Singh (born 1969) is a human rights lawyer for the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative.〔http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/amrit-singh〕 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.〔Amrit Singh, US torture puts a stain on Europe, May 12, 2011, http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/us-torture-puts-a-stain-on-europe/71045.aspx; Amrit Singh, Time for Romania to Face the Truth over Secret CIA Prison, http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/time-romania-face-truth-over-secret-cia-prison〕 Singh is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition.〔http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/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.〔Scott Shane, Report Says 54 Countries Helped C.I.A. After 9/11, New York Times, Feb. 4, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/report-says-54-countries-helped-cia-with-interrogations-after-9-11.html?_r=0; Ian Cobain, CIA rendition report author believes UK could face human rights court, Feb. 5, 2013, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/cia-rendition-report-uk-court〕 The report received global media attention and was the subject of editorials in leading newspapers.〔About those Black Sites, New York Times, Feb. 13, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/opinion/about-those-black-sites.html; Amrit Singh, Lets Lift the Veil on Rendition, Feb. 6, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/06/opinion/la-oe-singh-rendition-brennan-20130206;〕 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,”〔http://www.aclu.org/accountability/timeline.html〕 among thousands of other government records〔http://www.aclu.org/accountability/tortureprogram.html〕 exposing the systemic nature of the Bush administration’s torture practices.〔Scott Shane, A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth, New York Times, Aug. 29, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/world/30intel.html〕 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.” 〔Testimony of Amrit Singh, Before The House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Oversight Hearing on Torture and the Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Detainees: The Effectiveness and Consequences of "Enhanced" Interrogation, Nov. 8, 2007,〕〔http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/singh_testimony_20071108.pdf〕 She is co-author, with Jameel Jaffer, of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. (Columbia University Press, 2007).〔http://www.aclu.org/national-security/administration-torture〕 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. ==Author== * Singh, Amrit ''Globalising Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition'', Open Society Foundations,(February 2013), New York, NY, ISBN 978-1-936133-75-8〔("PM’s daughter Amrit Singh exposes CIA’s global secret prisons" (Feb 7, 2013) ''Firstpost'' )〕 * Co-Author (with Jameel Jaffer), Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)〔http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/10/administration_of_torture_1.html〕 * A report titled: Death by Drone: Civilian Harm Caused by U.S. Targeted Killings in Yemen.〔http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/death-drone〕〔https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/amrit-singh〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amrit Singh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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