Baher Azmy

Baher Azmy is an American lawyer, and Professor of Law, at Seton Hall Universitycite web
url=http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/azmybahe/azmy.html
title=biography
publisher="Seton Hall University"
accessdate=January 14
accessyear=2007] , specializing in constitutional law.

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. cite news
url=http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050711fa_fact4
title=The Experiment
publisher="The New Yorker"
author=Jane Mayer
date=July 4 2005
accessdate=2007-01-14]

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.cite web
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Transcript_Set_5_20000-20254.pdf#64
title=documents presented to Murat Kurnaz Administrative Review Board - pages 64-66
publisher="Department of Defense"
author=Baher Azmy
accessdate=January 14
accessyear=2007] cite web
url=http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/azmy_murat_kurnaz_lawsuit_transcripts.htm
title=Lawsuit challenges Defense Department's withholding of transcripts that could exonerate former Guantanamo Bay detainee
publisher="Seton Hall University"
date=December 21 2006
accessdate=January 14
accessyear=2007] cite web
url=http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2006/kurnaz_complaint_12_21_06.pdf
title=Baher Azmy v. Department of Defense (.pdf)
accessdate=January 14
accessyear=2007
publisher="Seton Hall University"
author=Baher Azmy
format=PDF] 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." [ [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=310 Show Description for This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas] ] [ [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/radio/310_transcript.pdf Transcript of This American Life episode #310: Habeas Shmabeas] ]

ee also

*Mark P. Denbeaux
*Seton Hall study
*Unlawful combatant

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