CASES
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AAFIA SIDDIQUI
Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani educationalist, and mother of three, who is currently held in a Texas Federal Prison, enduring an 86 year sentence for an incident involving the US military in which she was the person who got shot.
I am bringing to light the circumstances of Aafia’s original abduction by the CIA in 2003, including the kidnapping of her children, who were with her at the time.
The evidence presented at her trial in 2010 was riddled with inconsistencies, and much of it was extorted by torture.
I am challenging her continued imprisonment.
Guantánamo "war on terror" Cases
The Guantánamo Bay Detention Center opened in January 2002, in response to the events of 9/11. At one time there were 780 men being held there. I have represented 87 of these men and was one of the first lawyers to bring a challenge the prison in the Rasul v Bush case in February 2002, seeking to restore the writ of habeas corpus to the men held there. I visited the prison more than 40 times, and memorialised what I was allowed to reveal about what I saw and heard in a book. All the men I represented have now been released, but I still support legal teams working on behalf of the remaining prisoners.
Krishna Maharaj
British citizen Kris Maharaj died in prison on 5 August, 2024 after spending 38 years behind bars for a crime committed by a Colombian drug cartel. Kris was wrongfully convicted in 1987 of a double murder that took place in Miami on October 16, 1986. I have represented him since 1993. After 15 years on death row, Kris was re-sentenced to life imprisonment, which amounted to another kind of death sentence. After failing to get him relief in the courts, I wrote a book about his case. Kris was brought home to England for burial in my hometown of Bridport, and his wife Marita lives here as well and visits his grave as regularly as she visited him in prison.