Amrit Singh is an Indian-American human rights lawyer who directs projects on national security and counterterrorism at the Open Society Justice Initiative. In 2006, he made headlines for his vocal campaign against the Bush administration’s contempt for civil liberties. She is the daughter of Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Wiki/Biography
Amrit Singh was born in 1969 (age 53 years; in 2022) in New York, USA.
Childhood photo of Amrit Singh with his father, Manmohan Singh, in Buffalo, New York State, in 1969
From 1989 to 1991, he attended the University of Cambridge in England, where he pursued a BA (Hons) in Economics. He pursued an MPhil at Oxford University Economics (1991-1993). He earned his Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School, Connecticut (1998-2001).
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 4″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Family
Amrit Singh belongs to Kohli Sikh Family.
Parents & Siblings
His father, Manmohan Singh, was an Indian politician from the Congress party who served as the 13th prime minister of India. His mother’s name is Gursharan Kaur. She is the youngest of three sisters. His elder brother Daman Singh is a writer, while Upinder Singh is a historian.
Amrit Singh’s parents, Manmohan Singh and Gursharan Kaur
Amrit Singh’s sister, Daman Singh
Manmohan Singh with his daughter Upinder Singh (in red circle) and wife, Gursharan Kaur
Family photo of Manmohan Singh
Husband & Son
She is married to Barton Beebe, a law professor at New York University School of Law.
Amrit Singh’s husband, Barton Beebe
Career
From September 2001 to August 2002, he served as a Judicial Law Clerk in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Singh began his journey as a lawyer in July 2002 when he registered with the New York State Bar Association. In the same year, he joined the non-profit organization American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a Staff Attorney for the Immigrant Rights Project; he served at the ACLU until 2009. There, he litigated immigrant rights and national security cases such as post-9/11-related abuse, including landmark litigation that exposed the scale of the Bush administration’s torture practices. He filed papers asking a federal judge to order the White House, the FBI, and other government agencies to release all records in their possession related to the destruction of two videotapes by CIA operatives in 2005 as well as transcripts and summaries of the tapes. The tapes show the harsh interrogation of two prisoners in US custody, Abu Zubaida and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. From May 2011 to July 2014, Singh served as counsel for al-Nashiri in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights against Poland and Romania. In October 2002 al-Nashiri was arrested in Dubai, UAE, and secretly transferred to CIA custody after which he was tortured in a secret CIA prison. On April 20, 2011, United States military commission prosecutors brought charges against him stating their intention to seek the death penalty in his case. Singh’s efforts led to a judgment in favor of al-Nashri, which was handed down on July 24, 2014. He also authored The Torture Administration: Documentary Record From Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (2009), which alleges that the Bush administration authorized torture. following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In 2006, he was also recognized for his work in the Ali vs Rumsfeld case, which was filed against US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners tortured in American custody. In September 2009, he joined the justice branch of Open Society Foundations in New York as Senior Legal Officer. Open Society Foundations (OSF) is a grant-making network founded and chaired by business magnate George Soros. OSF supports civil society groups financially around the world, with the stated goals of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media. At the Open Society Justice Initiative, Singh conducts strategic litigation, documentation and advocacy on human rights issues related to counter-terrorism measures such as challenging extremism, restrictions on freedom of expression, extrajudicial killings, renditions, torture and arbitrary detention. He also oversees projects on economic justice, anti-corruption, and freedom of information, association and assembly, the Freedom and Transparency section of the Justice Initiative. In 2012, ‘Globalising Torture: CIA Secret Torture and Extraordinary Rendition’, a report by Amrit Singh published by the Open Society Justice Initiative, received considerable attention in the international media for exposing a global network of torture.
In February 2016, he was promoted to Director of Accountability Division at OSF. In the same year, he authored Eroding Trust: The UK’s Prevent Counter-Extremism Strategy in Health and Education
Among other cases, he has been a lawyer in the litigation demanding accountability for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 by agents of the Saudi government, allegedly at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He also successfully challenged Egypt’s emergency laws, torture and arbitrary detention practices before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He has served as a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and New York University. In 2022, he moved to London, where he began serving as visiting faculty at the Transnational Law Institute, Kings College London. In April 2015, he wrote Death by Drone. The report casts serious doubt on whether President Obama is keeping his 2013 promise that before any US drone strike “there must be certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.”
Facts/Trivia
- In 2006, he was honored at the South Asian Bar Association New York Awards.
Amrit Singh at the South Asian Bar Association New York Awards in 2006
- In 2012, he received the Overseas Indian Special Award for Excellence.
From left to right, Amrit Singh (pictured with the 2012 Indian Abroad Special Award for Excellence), Sri Srinivasan (United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit), Raj Shah (India Abroad Person of the Year 2012), and Preet Bhara (US Aid Administrator)
- In 2013, US resident Inderjit Singh, a member of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), alleged that as India’s finance minister Manmohan Singh had financed several counter-insurgency operations in Punjab in the 1990s that resulted in thousands of Sikhs being extrajudicially killed by security. Therefore, SFJ filed a motion for leave to appeal to allow service of the summons on his daughter Amrit Singh, who is a permanent resident of the United States, by alternative means to the defendant. Judge James Boasberg in the District of Columbia allowed service of subpoenas against Amrit Singh in a copyright infringement suit in 2014.
- In April 2019, Bharti Jain, a journalist at The Times of India, tweeted making serious allegations of fraud and collusion by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that his daughters Daman and Amrit were getting salaries from Nalanda University (NU) as faculty members during their stay. in the US. In a series of tweets, Bharti Jain made serious allegations of financial misconduct and nepotism against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. Afterward, the fact-checking website Alt News Desk clarified that the statement was false.
Two more faculties were appointed, honorary, Daman Singh & Amrit Singh. Middle & youngest daughter of Manmohan Singh..They live in USA while taking salary
— Bharti Jain (@bhartijainTOI) April 28, 2019
- In 2020, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation came under public scrutiny for receiving donations from foreign organizations after it was accused of undermining a country’s sovereignty. It has been found that China has paid the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) over Rs. 1 crore during the UPA regime. In addition, a deep connection was found between the Congress and George Soros, the philanthropist who declared war on nationalism and nationalists. The link reveals that George Soros, through his complex network of NGOs, has disproportionate influence over the Congress party. As a result, Amrit Singh is also under public scrutiny because of his ties to George Soros’s OSF.
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