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| TYPE: | Campus |
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| TITLE: | Konefsky Lecture: “Disappeared in New York and Guantanamo: Arbitrary Detention and Torture Post 9-11” |
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| DESCRIPTION: | The lecture will be given by RACHEL MEEROPOL staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has worked extensively on prisoner-rights issues following September 11, 2001, including seeking to provide legal representation for the detainees in Guantanamo, Cuba. She is co-author of America’s Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the ‘War on Terror.’ (And she is granddaughter of Julian and Ethel Rosenberg, and daughter of Robert Meeropol.) | ||
| DATE: | Wednesday, April18, 2007 | ||
| TIME: | 3:30pm | ||
| LOCATION: | Bedford Room, 2nd floor of the Student Center | ||
| CONTACT: | sallyb@brooklyn.cuny.edu or call (718) 951-5306 | ||
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| PRICE: | $ | ||
| NOTE: | The Center for Constitutional Rights is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights. | ||
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