Baher Azmy
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Baher Azmy is an American lawyer, and Professor of Law, at Seton Hall University.[1]
Azmy specializes in constitutional law.[1]
Azmy is notable for his wide number of publications, and for undertaking a leading role in the Center for Constitutional Rights attempts to provide legal assistance to the captives the Bush administration is holding in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[2]
Azmy was the lawyer for one of the more high-profile Guantanamo captives, Murat Kurnaz, A Turkish youth who was born and spent his entire life in Germany.[3][4][5] Kurnaz was captured shortly following the attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001, because he was a European Muslim traveling with a group of Muslim pilgims, participating in the Tabligh Jamaat movement.
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- ^ a b biography. Seton Hall University. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
- ^ Jane Mayer. "The Experiment", 'New Yorker', July 4, 2005. Retrieved on January 14.
- ^ Baher Azmy. documents presented to Murat Kurnaz Administrative Review Board - pages 64-66. Department of Defense. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
- ^ Lawsuit challenges Defense Department's withholding of transcripts that could exonerate former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Seton Hall University (December 21, 2006). Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
- ^ Baher Azmy. Baher Azmy v. Department of Defense (.pdf). Seton Hall University. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.