Pardiss Kebriaei
Pardiss Kebriaei is a Senior Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she challenges government abuse in the national security context. She was lead counsel for CCR in the first lawsuits challenging the U.S. government’s CIA drone killing program, and has represented men detained at Guantanamo for over a decade. She has also represented people unjustly prosecuted for terrorism in the federal system and held in torturous prison conditions. Prior to joining the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2007, she was an attorney in the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. She has written about her clients in publications including Rolling Stone (“Why a Guantanamo Detainee Would Refuse a Chance to Leave,” 2016); Harper’s Magazine (“Life After Guantanamo,” 2015); and The Nation “The Torture that Flourishes from Gitmo to an American Supermax,” 2014).
