Baher Azmy

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Baher Azmy is an American lawyer, and Professor of Law, at Seton Hall University[1], specializing 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 a high-profile Guantanamo captives, Murat Kurnaz. Kurnaz is a Turkish citizen 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. Kurnaz was arrested in Pakistan and never travelled to Afghanistan or any other location that could be considered a military battleground.

Azmy shared his experiences defending Kurnaz on the Peabody Award-winning episode of This American Life entitled "Habeas Shmabeas."[6][7]

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  1. ^ a b biography. Seton Hall University. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
  2. ^ Jane Mayer. "The Experiment", The New Yorker, July 4, 2005. Retrieved on January 14. 
  3. ^ Baher Azmy. documents presented to Murat Kurnaz Administrative Review Board - pages 64-66. Department of Defense. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Baher Azmy. Baher Azmy v. Department of Defense (.pdf). Seton Hall University. Retrieved on January 14, 2007.
  6. ^ Show Description for This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas
  7. ^ Transcript of This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas
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