Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
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Mahvish Rukhsana Khan is an Pashtun
-American lawyer and writer.
While still in law school at the University of Miami
, Khan, who speaks Pashto
, and whose parents are Pashtun
, worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees
held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. After visiting the military base, she wrote of her experiences in the Washington Post in 2006.
That Post article was later expanded into a book, My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told me., published in 2008 by PublicAffairs.
Khan is now providing supervised legal counsel for one Afghan detainee at Guantanamo.
On February 25, 2010, the Daily Times published a excerpt from her book, where she describes meeting Ali Shah Mousovi – the first captive she met.
She reported being told of serious abuse by Mousavi, including week of confinement in a coffin-sized box, beatings, stress positions, and being soaked with freezing cold water.
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
-American lawyer and writer.
University of Miami School of Law
The University of Miami School of Law, founded in 1926, is the law school of the University of Miami, located in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States. The school graduated its first class of 13 students in 1929.- Academics :...
, Khan, who speaks Pashto
Pashto language
Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...
, and whose parents are Pashtun
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
, worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees
Guantanamo Bay attorneys
The Center for Constitutional Rights has coordinated efforts by American lawyers to handle the habeas corpus, and other legal appeals, of several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees....
held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. After visiting the military base, she wrote of her experiences in the Washington Post in 2006.
That Post article was later expanded into a book, My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told me., published in 2008 by PublicAffairs.
Khan is now providing supervised legal counsel for one Afghan detainee at Guantanamo.
On February 25, 2010, the Daily Times published a excerpt from her book, where she describes meeting Ali Shah Mousovi – the first captive she met.
She reported being told of serious abuse by Mousavi, including week of confinement in a coffin-sized box, beatings, stress positions, and being soaked with freezing cold water.