<span class="vcard">Hina Shamsi</span>

Hina Shamsi

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Hina Shamsi (@HinaShamsi) is the Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights.  She has litigated cases upholding the freedoms of speech and association, and challenging targeted killing, torture, unlawful detention, and religious and racial discrimination.  Her work includes a focus on the intersection of national security and counterterrorism policies with international human rights and humanitarian law.

Hina appears regularly in the media, is the author and coauthor of publications on targeted killing, torture, and extraordinary rendition, and has monitored and reported on the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay. She is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School.  Her previous positions include serving as the Acting Director of Human Rights First’s Law & Security Program, and as Senior Advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. Hina is also on LinkedIn.

Articles by this author:

Close shot of the chest of a person in military uniform with medals and pins of a crescent moon and letters "US"
A Yemeni man looks at graffiti protesting against US drone strikes on September 19, 2018 in Sana'a, Yemen.
Two tall greyscale rectangles cast dark shadows representing the Twin Towers. Text reads, “How Perpetual War Has Changed Us: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11”
The empty courtroom of the Commissions building where on Tuesday preliminary hearings will begin for four detainees held on the Naval Base is seen August 22, 2004 in Guantanamo, Cuba. Six flags stand at the front of the room.
A member of the Afghan Air Force 777 Special Mission Wing looks out of an Mi-17 helicopter during a training mission on September 13, 2017 outside of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A protester holds a sign reading, “End Torture” at a rally to "demand Congressional action to stop torture" on Capitol Hill March 10, 2008 in Washington, DC.
US Army guards watch over detainees at Camp Delta, 12 September 2002, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Razor wire tops the fence of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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