Sahr MuhammedAlly

Senior Associate
Law and Security Program
Joined Human Rights First in 2007

Sahr MuhammedAlly is a senior associate in the Law & Security Program. Through research and advocacy Sahr works on U.S. counterterrorism and national security policies to ensure respect for human rights. Sahr has conducted human rights fact-finding research in Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan.

Before joining Human Rights First, Sahr was an Alan R. Finberg Fellow and consultant at Human Rights Watch, where she focused on Asia and authored reports on counterterrorism and administrative detention policies. As a consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union, Sahr authored the ACLU’s shadow report to the U.N. Committee against Torture on U.S compliance with the Convention against Torture. From 2002-2004, Sahr was an associate with the Gibbons law firm in New York and undertook pro bono work on indefinite detention of noncitizens. Sahr has also worked with the International Rescue Committee and with Human Rights in China.

Sahr is the author of Arbitrary Justice: Trials of Bagram and Guantanamo Detainees in Afghanistan; Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the U.S. at Home and Abroad; Detained without Trial: Ill-Treatment of Internal Security Act Detainees in Malaysia; Convicted Before Trial: Indefinite Detention Under Malaysia’s Emergency Ordinance; and Always on Call: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia.

Sahr graduated with a B.A. in Politics from Mount Holyoke College in 1995 and received her law degree from Brooklyn Law School, cum laude, in 2002.