Shayana D. "Shane" Kadidal is an American lawyer and writer.Bio, Center for Constitutional rights
Retrieved 2009-03-15 Kadidal has worked at the

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since 2001, and is senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative there, coordinating legal representation for the captives held in

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in the

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

s, in

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. Previously a writer on patent, drug and obscenity law, since 2001 he has played a role in various notable

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cases, including: :

Guantanamo clients

Kadidal has worked on behalf of a number of the captives held in

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. As ''Senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo project'' at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Kadidal has coordinated defense of Guantanamo detainees, spoken, written and been interviewed widely as an expert on the legal implications of these cases.Indian lawyer scores one for Guantanamo detainees
Arthur J Pais. Redif Indians Abroad. July 08, 2008
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(Madrid). 26 January 2009. On January 8, 2007, the

published a list of the lead petitioner's counsel in the Guantanamo habeas cases. Kadidal was listed as the counsel for

Murat Kurnaz Murat Kurnaz (born 19 March 1982) is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at its military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Guantanam ...

and

Moazzam Begg Moazzam Begg (; born 5 July 1968 in Sparkhill, Birmingham) is a British Pakistani who was held in extrajudicial detention by the US government in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, in Cuba, for ...

. On July 18, 2008, Shayana D. Kadidal of the

filed a status report on Al Halmandy v. Bush No. 05-CV-2385 (RMU) on behalf of seven Guantanamo captives Kadidal wrote that of the 63 captives initially listed in the petition, all but those seven had either been repatriated, or were named in other petitions.

Wilner v. NSA

Kadidal represents 23 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees who believe they had been subjected to a warrantless wiretap. The 23 suspect they had been the target of surveillance because they volunteered to assist Guantanamo captives. They filed a

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request, Wilner v. NSA, for the

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's records of their wiretaps. As part of the FOIA request Kadidal wrote:

Other work

After graduating from Yale Law in 1994, Kadidal worked in a number of areas before becoming involved in civil liberties law. He wrote on plant patenting issues, including on the role of Western corporations in patenting the products of the

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tree. He also published academic works on drug laws and on the role of technology in United States Obscenity Law. Since he began work at the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2001 Kadidal has taken part in or led litigation in government detention, wiretapping, electoral, and job and religious discrimination cases. These include defending Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a New York journalist at New York's

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radio and stateless national detained indefinitely after the September 11 terrorist attacks; bringing suit against the

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for discrimination on behalf of members of the African American firefighters group, the Vulcan Society, which was further expanded to include women and Hispanic firefighters; litigating against the NSA for accused wiretapping of lawyers; litigating a suit against the "Material Support" segments of the Patriot Act, specifically in its restriction of fundraising for medical clinics in parts of

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occupied by the

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(LTTE); litigating and organizing litigation of three 2005 cases against United States government travel restrictions to

; and arguing in a suit on behalf of a United States Sikh rights group alleging religious discrimination of employees by New York Transit Authority. He was awarded the ''2009 Access To Justice Award'' by the South Asian Bar Association of New York.South Asian Bar Association of New York

Publications

Kadidal has written for a variety of publications, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He is the coauthor of the book '' Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush''.

References

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