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Afghan attorney and human rights activist
Mr. Lal Gul is a founder
and the current Chairman of the Afghanistan Human Rights
Organization (AHRO). AHRO was founded in 1997
" [t]o promote, protect, and defend the human rights of the Afghans
through proactive advocacy, grassroots activism, publicity, legal
representation and participation and collaboration in the national and
international Human Rights communities and the United Nations."
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John
Sifton is an attorney and investigator with experience in the Middle
East, Asia, Europe and the United States. He worked at Human Rights
Watch from 2001 until 2007, from 2005 to 2007 as the senior researcher
on terrorism and counterterrorism, focusing on Asia, Europe, and the
Middle East and South Asia, and from 2001 to 2004 as a researcher in
Asia Division, focusing on Afghanistan, as well as India and Pakistan.
He researched extensively on issues related to U.S. detention
operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, and secret CIA
prisons.
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