Amrit Singh

Who is Amrit Singh?

Amrit Singh is a human rights lawyer for the National Security and Counterterrorism program at the Open Society Justice Initiative. She was formerly a staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.

As Senior Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative, since 2009, Ms. Singh directs a program that conducts strategic litigation and advocacy on national security-related human rights abuses across the globe. She is Counsel, among other cases, in al Nashiri v. Poland and al Nashiri v. Romania, lawsuits brought on behalf of Guantanamo prisoner Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri before the European Court of Human Rights that challenge the role of Poland and Romania in the CIA’s secret detention program.

Singh is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition. The 216 page report, released by OSJI in February 2013, is the most comprehensive account to date of the human rights abuses associated with the CIA’s post 9/11 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations as well as of the large number of foreign governments implicated in these operations. The report received global media attention and was the subject of editorials in leading newspapers.