Alka Pradhan
Alka Pradhan
Alka Pradhan is a human rights attorney specializing in litigating the effects of torture on fair trials, most notably before the Guantanamo Bay military commissions in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al. (the “9/11 case”), and at the International Criminal Court, where she is Associate Defense Counsel for Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz in his case arising out of the Situation in Mali. She has also filed applications before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and numerous UN agencies and treaty bodies on issues at the intersection of international human rights and humanitarian law. She is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and one of the drafters of the Principles of Effective Interviewing for Investigations, or the “Mendez Principles,” which aims to end coercive or torture-driven interrogation practices around the world.
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