Gareth Peirce
Detainee Attorney
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UK
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June 15, 2013, London, United Kingdom
3:51
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After Moazzam Begg’s kidnapping in Pakistan, his family and attorney Peirce vigorously tried and failed to get information from the British authorities. Once the Rasul v. Bush decision allowed attorneys to go to Guantanamo, they discovered the British had been involved from the beginning.
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Gareth Peirce is a British solicitor and a senior partner of Birnberg Pierce and Partners. She is a tenacious defender of human rights, representing those accused of terrorist activity first in Northern Ireland and more recently at Guantanamo Bay. Her clients include British citizens Moazzam Begg and Shakar Aamer. In 2010 she published Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice, a book of essays detailing her defense of Muslims accused of terrorism.
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