Kurzdarstellung von und über Pardiss Kebriaei vom Center for Constitutional Rights

Pardiss Kebriaei is an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, where she represents men detained at Guantanamo Bay. CCR’s clients include men from Syria, Algeria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, who have been detained since 2002 without charge. Her work on their behalf includes representing them in their habeas corpus petitions before U.S. federal courts and in their complaints to international bodies, advocating for their repatriation or resettlement vis-à-vis foreign governments, and meeting with them regularly at Guantanamo. She also represents the families of two prisoners who died at Guantanamo in 2006 in their case against former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. government officials for the deaths of their sons. With her colleagues at CCR, she also helps to coordinate a network of hundreds of lawyers from around the United States who represent other Guantanamo detainees. In addition to Guantanamo, she has investigated U.S.-run prisons in Afghanistan, including Pulecharki prison near Kabul where former prisoners from Guantanamo and Bagram have been transferred. Prior to joining CCR, she was the legal advisor for international litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York for five years, and has taught courses on international human rights and women’s rights at the City University of New York. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.