Anant Raut

Who is Anant Raut?

Anant Raut is an American lawyer. He was formerly an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He was also formerly Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is currently an attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC.

Anant Raut is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. After working for two years litigating antitrust cases at the Federal Trade Commission, he joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He has provided habeas representation to 5 Saudi Arabian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, including two of the 16 Saudis released from Guantanamo in early September 2007: Abdullah Al Anazi, and Abdul Aziz Sad Al Owshan. Another one of his clients, Adel al Nusairi, was featured in an April 22, 2008 Washington Post story as one of a number of detainees who were allegedly drugged with unknown substances prior to being interrogated. As stated in the article, during one such interrogation in which a groggy Mr. al Nusairi was forcibly kept awake in an ice-cold room, eventually signing a false confession professing involvement in al Qaeda. The article further stated that a 2003 Department of Justice memo by John C.