Good news regarding the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School

Professors Baher Azmy, and his clinical students, have spent the past two years immersed in a multifaceted campaign to free Marat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish descent who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years. After years of litigation, international media campaigns, collaboration with attorneys in the U.S., Germany, and elsewhere, advocacy with countless government officials, and travel to Guantanamo, Turkey, and Germany, the United States government finally released Mr. Kurnaz. In the words of Professor Azmy, “the U.S. government has repeatedly said Guantanamo houses only terrorists and people from the battlefields–the worst of the worst. We know that this claim is not only an exaggeration, but a lie, and Murat Kurnaz’s case proves this.” Congratulations to Professor Baher Azmy and his students for years of groundbreaking and tireless work to advance the rule of law and shed light on the U.S.’s unlawful imprisonment of his client at Guantanamo. Click here and here for recent articles about this case. Lori Nessel, Professor of Law, Dean’s Fellow and Director, Center for Social Justice, at Seton Hall also deserves kudos.

KJ