User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/not ready yet/Peter M. Ryan

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Peter M. Ryan is an American lawyer with the firm Cozen O'Connor.^[1]^[2] He received the Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award in 2005 and the Clifford Scott Green Bill of Rights Award in 2008. In addition to his work on behalf of 16 Afghans held in extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, he is also recognized for his pro bono defense when he successfully challenged the sentence verdict issued to a mentally disabled man held on Pennsylvania's death row.

Guantanamo cases

Ryan's team represented fifteen Afghan captives in Guantanamo.^[2] Malvish Khan, now a lawyer herself, and author of My Guantanamo Diary, an account of her experience with Afghans held in Guantanamo, first traveled to Guantanamo when she was a law student, as part of Ryan's team. As an Afghan-American she was able to translate for Ryan and his colleagues. When Khan got her law degree she worked with Ryan as a lawyer for Guantanamo captives.

Quaker interview

In 2007 Ryan was interviewed by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, which describes itself as "a Quaker lobby in Washington."^[3] His interview was publishined under the title "Habeas Corpus is Essential to Due Process".

Hiring private investigator for investigations in Afghanistan

Ryan hired Jonathon Horowitz of One World Research to interview witnesses to confirm or refute his client's accounts of themselves.^[4]

Comments on Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul's detention in Pul-e-Charkhi prison

After reports another former Afghan captive Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul had emerged as a senior Taliban leader Ryan was quoted about conditions at Pul-e-Charkhi prison.^[5] Like Rasoul one of Ryan's clients had been transferred to nominal Afghan custody in the American wing of Pul-e-Charkhi prison.

References

^ {{ | url = https://www.cozen.com/people/bios/ryan-peter | title = Peter M. Ryan | publisher = Cozen O'Connor | accessdate = | year = 2011 | quote = Peter received the 2005 Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award and the Federal Bar Association's 2008 Clifford Scott Green Bill of Rights Award for his habeas corpus representation of 16 Afghan nationals detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He also represented a mentally disabled death row inmate in one of the first successful challenges to a death sentence in Pennsylvania under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Atkins v. Virginia. }}
^ ^a ^b Mahvish Khan (2006-04-30). "My Guantanamo Diary: Face to Face With the War on Terrorism". Washington Post. p. B01. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
^ "Habeas Corpus is Essential to Due Process". Friends Committee on National Legislation. 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2016-02-19. Peter Ryan is an attorney with the Philadelphia-based firm of Dechert LLP, which represents 14 Afghan nationals detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, several of whom are in their sixth year of detention. The FCNL Washington Newsletter asked Ryan to discuss habeas corpus—the right of detainees to challenge their imprisonment in court—and how restoring this fundamental protection would impact his clients.
^ Jonathon Horowitz (2009-02-09). "Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy". The Jurist. Retrieved 2009-03-13. mirror
^ Michael Evans, Catherine Philp (2009-03-13). "Afghans pressed to explain release of Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul". The Times. Retrieved 2009-03-13.

External links

Kim Barker, (2006-10-17). "`What is my crime?'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2016-02-19. Case of an elderly Afghan freed after 3 1/2 years at Guantanamo raises questions about U.S. detentions{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

[CozenBioPeterRyan-1] {{ | url = https://www.cozen.com/people/bios/ryan-peter | title = Peter M. Ryan | publisher = Cozen O'Connor | accessdate = | year = 2011 | quote = Peter received the 2005 Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award and the Federal Bar Association's 2008 Clifford Scott Green Bill of Rights Award for his habeas corpus representation of 16 Afghan nationals detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. He also represented a mentally disabled death row inmate in one of the first successful challenges to a death sentence in Pennsylvania under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Atkins v. Virginia. }}

[MiamiMalvishKhanDiary-2] Mahvish Khan (2006-04-30). "My Guantanamo Diary: Face to Face With the War on Terrorism". Washington Post. p. B01. Retrieved 2009-03-13.

[Fcnl2007-07-3] "Habeas Corpus is Essential to Due Process". Friends Committee on National Legislation. 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2016-02-19. Peter Ryan is an attorney with the Philadelphia-based firm of Dechert LLP, which represents 14 Afghan nationals detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, several of whom are in their sixth year of detention. The FCNL Washington Newsletter asked Ryan to discuss habeas corpus—the right of detainees to challenge their imprisonment in court—and how restoring this fundamental protection would impact his clients.

[TheJurist2009-03-12-4] Jonathon Horowitz (2009-02-09). "Gumshoeing in Kabul: Lessons for US Detention Policy". The Jurist. Retrieved 2009-03-13. mirror

[TheTimes2009-03-13-5] Michael Evans, Catherine Philp (2009-03-13). "Afghans pressed to explain release of Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul". The Times. Retrieved 2009-03-13.

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