Guantanamo Bay and the Evolution of Its Litigation

Date 

Add to My Calendar Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:00am

Location 

Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei alongside CCR friend Ramzi Kassem and CUNY law students for a discussion of Guantanamo Bay and the Evolution of Its Litigation 12 years later.

Where: CUNY Law School, Community Room 3/115
When: Wednesday, April 23rd at 6:00 p.m.
RSVP: Email [email protected]

*This event is free and open to the public with RSVP. Dinner will be served.

Panelists

Pardiss Kebriaei, Senior Staff attorney at CCR, focuses on challenging government abuses post 9/11, including "Targeted Killing" programs and unjust detentions in the federal system and at Guantanamo.

Professor Ramzi Kassem, Director of CUNY's Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic (INRC), represents men presently and formerly held at Guantanamo Bay. He also supervises CUNY's "Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility" (CLEAR) project.

Shelby Sullivan & Humbert Wong, Third-year law students at CUNY, Ms. Sullivan and Mr. Wong are involved with both the law & security docket of INRC and the CUNY-CLEAR project. As student attorneys, they assist Professor Kassem on Guantanamo cases and also represent clients through CUNY-CLEAR.

Last modified 

April 16, 2014