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-	When I was working with Human Rights Watch	0:03
	I was doing research on human rights violations	0:05
	in the aftermath of the suicide bombings that happened	0:11
	in Casablanca in May of 2002,	0:15
	There were serious crackdowns on Islamists.	0:23
	In particular, there were people who were rounded up	0:28
	secretly detained, tortured, and abused.	0:31
	And my research at Human Rights Watch specifically looked	0:34
	at how the Moroccan authorities reacted	0:36
	to the Casablanca bombing.	0:40
	And my purpose was to show how they failed to meet	0:42
	their international human rights obligations.	0:47
	And I remember when we concluded our investigation	0:49
	and had a meeting with the human rights minister,	0:51
	the Moroccan human rights minister	0:54
	and we conveyed our concerns.	0:55
	One of the things that he reacted to us, he said,	1:01
	"Well you are coming to me from from the United States.	1:02
	You are an American based organization, Human Rights Watch.	1:07
	This is what we are doing here.	1:11
	It's part of what happened after 9/11	1:13
	just like Guantanamo it's all", he said something like	1:16
	"it's all like one package.	1:18
	It's like the whole package.	1:20
	It's like, you know	1:21
	this is a whole game", that we were part of it.	1:22
	So, and I remember that we had to later on	1:25
	go back as a Human Rights Watch researchers,	1:30
	collect all these responses	1:34
	from different government officials	1:36
	around the world that use Guantanamo	1:38
	as a way to justify their own abuses,	1:41
	to use it as a way to advocate for ending Guantanamo abuses,	1:43
	ending the regime of Guantanamo.	1:48
	Sure, look, Guantanamo really created a new,	1:49
	dangerous reality that all other countries will now say	1:53
	"This is a fair game to violate human rights	1:58
	because we have a national security crisis."	2:01

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Title:

Dakwar, Jamil - short clip - HumanRightsViolationsAreNowFairGame

Date:

May 24, 2016

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Dakwar, Jamil

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Human Rights Advocate

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Director of Human Rights Program, ACLU
Jamil Dakwar, male, age 42, is Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program, which includes work on counter-terrorism and Guantanamo. He is also the ACLU's Main Representative to the United Nations, and has testified on the U.S.'s human rights violations in that capacity.
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2:14:45

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