Name Scott Horton | Role Attorney | |
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Education University of Texas at Austin | ||
Attorney scott horton on justice after bush prosecuting an outlaw administration on democracy now 1 of 3
Scott Horton is an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, as well as emerging markets and international law. He graduated Texas Law School in Austin with a JD and was a partner in a large New York law firm, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. He "has advised sovereigns on the pursuit of kleptocratic predecessors." In April 2007, he joined Harper's Magazine as a legal affairs and national security contributor, and he currently authors the No Comment blog at Harper's Online. Horton has also written for American Lawyer, "the Web's leading legal news and information network" and The Daily Beast and has been interviewed on Antiwar Radio. and the John Batchelor Show.
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- Attorney scott horton on justice after bush prosecuting an outlaw administration on democracy now 1 of 3
- Attorney scott horton reveals 3 gitmo prisoners died after torture at secret site
- Bilal Hussein case
- Matthew Diaz case
- Raymond Azar
- References
Horton is a lecturer at Columbia Law School, as well as a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia and of Sanghata Global. Horton is a former president of the International League for Human Rights, and he recently contributed to a report which claimed that human rights standards apply to detainees captured by the U.S. in the War on Terrorism. He "served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union."
Attorney scott horton reveals 3 gitmo prisoners died after torture at secret site
Bilal Hussein case
Horton was hired by the Associated Press to represent Bilal Hussein, a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist who was detained without charges by the US military for over a year.
Matthew Diaz case
Horton has written blog posts on the Harper's Magazine web site regarding the case of Guantanamo Bay detention camp whistle blower Lt. Commander Matthew Diaz.
Raymond Azar
On August 28, 2009 Horton asserted that the treatment of Raymond Azar in Bagram Theater Internment Facility in April 2009 by Department of Justice officials was identical to the now prohibited torture techniques CIA snatch teams had once used on "high value detainees" in the war on terror.