Oral history interview with Asim Qureshi, 2011.

Biographical Note

Executive Director, Cageprisoners.

Scope and Contents

Born: London, England; education: B.A., London Guildhall University, 2003; LL.M, University of London, 2004; career: attorney, researcher, caseworker, executive director, Cageprisoners, 2005 to present; career focus: human rights, due process, rendition, disappearances, rule of law; discussions: Muslim experience in United Kingdom, effects of U.S. policy on Muslims, Islam and Western law, conversations with detainee families, founding and evolution of Cageprisoners, War on Terror, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan; reminiscences: racism in United Kingdom, education, conversion to Islam, travel to Palestine, Pakistan and Bosnia.

Subjects

• Cageprisoners (Organization)
• Cageprisoners (Organization)--Employees--Interviews.
• Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Extraordinary rendition.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Human rights.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Muslim converts--Great Britain--Interviews.
• Muslims--Great Britain.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Qureshi, Asim--Interviews.
• Terrorism--Government policy.
• Tharoor, Kanishk, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Torture (International law)

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