Amrit Singh is an Indian-American human rights lawyer who leads the National Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Open Society Justice Initiative. In 2006, she made headlines for speaking out against the Bush administration’s disdain for civil liberties. She is the daughter of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Wiki/Biography
Amrit Singh was born in 1969 in New York, USA (54 years old in 2023).
Amrit Singh’s childhood photo with his father Manmohan Singh in Buffalo, New York, 1969
From 1989 to 1991, she studied at the University of Cambridge in the UK and received a BA (Hons) in Economics. She studied for an MA in Economics at Oxford University (1991-1993). She received her Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School in Connecticut (1998-2001).
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family and caste
Amrit Singh belongs to a Koli Sikh family.
Parents and siblings
Her father, Manmohan Singh, was an Indian National Congress politician who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India. Her mother’s name is Gulsharan Kaur. She is the youngest of three sisters. Her elder sisters Daman Singh is a writer and Upinder Singh is a historian.
Amrit Singh’s parents Manmohan Singh and Gursharan Kaur
Amrit Singh’s sister Dharmaman Singh
Manmohan Singh with daughter Upinder Singh (in red circle) and wife Gursharan Kaur
Manmohan Singh family photos
husband and children
Her husband is Barton Beebe, a law professor at New York University School of Law.
Amrit Singh’s husband Patton Bibi
Profession
From September 2001 to August 2002, she served as a judicial clerk in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Singer began her legal career in July 2002 when she was admitted to the New York State Bar. In the same year, she joined the nonprofit American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a staff attorney for the Immigrant Rights Project; she served at the ACLU until 2009. There, she litigated immigrant rights and national security cases such as post-9/11-related violations, including landmark litigation that exposed the scale of the Bush administration’s torture practices. She filed documents asking a federal judge to order the White House, FBI and other government agencies to provide all records in their possession related to the destruction of two videotapes by CIA agents in 2005, as well as transcripts and summaries of the tapes. The video shows the harsh interrogation of two prisoners in US custody, Abu Zubaydah and Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri. From May 2011 to July 2014, Singer acted as Nashri’s lawyer in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights against Poland and Romania. In October 2002, Nashri was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and secretly transferred to CIA custody, where he was later tortured in a secret CIA prison. On April 20, 2011, prosecutors from the United States Military Commission filed charges against him and stated that they intended to seek the death penalty in his case. Singh’s efforts resulted in a verdict in Nashri’s favor, which was handed down on July 24, 2014. She co-authored Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record From Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (2009), which alleged that the Bush administration condoned Torture after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In 2006, she was also recognized for her work in Ali v. Rumsfeld, a case brought against U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan detainees who had been tortured in U.S. custody. In September 2009, she joined the New York Judicial Department of the Open Society Foundations as a senior legal officer. The Open Society Foundations (OSF) is a funding network founded and chaired by business magnate George Soros. OSF provides financial support to civil society groups around the world with the stated goals of promoting justice, education, public health and independent media. At the Open Society Justice Initiative, Singh strategically litigates, documents and advocates on human rights issues relevant to counter-terrorism measures, such as challenging extremism, restrictions on free speech, extrajudicial killings, rendition, torture and arbitrary detention. She also oversees programs in Economic Justice, Anti-Corruption, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Association and Assembly, and the Freedom and Transparency Unit of the Justice Initiative. In 2012, Amrit Singh’s report “Globalized Torture: CIA Covert Torture and Extraordinary Rendition” published by the Open Society Justice Initiative received great attention from the international media for exposing the global torture network.
In February 2016, she was promoted to Director of Accountability at OSF. In the same year, she wrote Eroding Trust: A UK strategy for preventing and countering extremism in health and education.
Among other cases, she served as a lawyer in the lawsuit seeking accountability for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018 He was assassinated by Saudi government agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Sunday, allegedly at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Salman. She also successfully challenged Egypt’s emergency laws, torture and arbitrary detention practices before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. She has served as a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and New York University. In 2022, she moved to London and began working as a visiting professor at the Institute of Transnational Law at King’s College London. In April 2015, she created “Drone Death”. The report casts serious doubts about whether President Obama has fulfilled his 2013 pledge that “there must be near certainty that there will be no civilian casualties” before a U.S. drone strike can be carried out.
Facts/Trivia
- In 2006, she received the New York South Asian Bar Association Award.
Amrit Singh Wins 2006 New York South Asian Bar Association Award
- In 2012, she received the Special Award for Outstanding Overseas India.
From left to right, Amrit Singh (pictured with the 2012 Indian Overseas Excellence Award), Sri Srinivasan (U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit), Raj Shah (Indian Overseas 2012), and Preet Bhara (U.S. Aid Director)
- In 2013, Inderjit Singh, a member of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and a U.S. resident, claimed that Indian Finance Minister Manmohan Singh funded Punjab in the 1990s Several counter-insurgency operations resulted in the extrajudicial killing of thousands of Sikhs. security forces. Accordingly, SFJ filed a motion for leave seeking permission to serve defendants’ subpoena by other means on their daughter, Amrit Singh, a U.S. permanent resident. In 2014, District of Columbia Judge James Boasberg allowed a subpoena to be issued to Amrit Singh in a human rights violation lawsuit.
- In April 2019, Times of India reporter Bharti Jain made serious accusations of fraud and conspiracy against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Twitter, claiming that his daughter Daman (Daman) and Amrit received salary from Nalanda University (NU) as members during their stay in the United States. In a series of tweets, Bharti Jain leveled serious allegations of financial misconduct and nepotism against Nobel laureate Senator Amartya. The fact-checking website Alt News Desk has since clarified that the statement was false.
Two other Honorary Fellows were appointed as Daman Singh and Amrit Singh.Manmohan Singh’s middle and younger daughters…they stay in the United States to receive their salaries
— Bharti Jain (@bhartijainTOI) April 28, 2019
- In 2020, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation came under public scrutiny for accepting donations from foreign organizations and was subsequently accused of undermining the country’s sovereignty. It was found that China paid over Rs. to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF). 1 Crore during the UPA regime. Additionally, deep ties have been discovered between Congress and philanthropist George Soros, who has declared war on nationalism and nationalists. These connections suggest that George Soros has disproportionate influence over the Congress party through his complex network of NGOs. As a result, Amrit Singh has also come under public scrutiny for his ties to George Soros’ OSF.
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