Program Director Sabi Ardalan and clinical students George Biashvili ’22 and Michael Shang ’22 spoke with the Harvard Crimson about a recent FOIA lawsuit. Image credit: Nicolas Lampert
“There is clear evidence that long-term solitary confinement has devastating effects, particularly on trauma survivors,” said Sabrineh Ardalan, the clinic’s director. “It is essential that we obtain these records in order to ensure that DHS is not continuing past harmful practices.”
Earlier this month, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, Rep. Nanette Barragán, Chairwoman of the Border Security, Facilitation, & Operations Subcommittee, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, sent a letter to the Department of Homeland…
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On November 15th from 3-4:30PM, our Program and the HarvardWIT+ employee resource group, along with other community partners, will host an event about the movement to expose the role ‘Big Tech’ plays in ICE detention and deportations: #NoTechforICE: Big Tech, Bureaucratic Violence, and Immigrant Justice. This event aims to bring different community members across Harvard together to…
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On September 16th, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and the HLS Immigration Project, in collaboration with Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and South Georgia Immigrant Support Network, released a report, titled Violence and Violation: Exposing medical abuse of immigrants detained at the Irwin County Detention Center. Download the full report (PDF).…
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Program Director Sabi Ardalan and Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director at Project South, penned this op-ed for Women’s eNews.
Project South, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, South Georgia Immigrant Support Network, and Staff and Students at Harvard Law School Outline Violations A year after immigrants’ rights supporters first shed light on the horrific abuses of women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (“ICDC”) in Georgia, advocates have released a…
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ATLANTA —The final known survivor of alleged gynecological abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) secured her freedom Friday afternoon, January 22, in Atlanta, Georgia.
On November 10th, the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance presented a report at the UN General Assembly on racial and xenophobic discrimination, emerging digital technologies, and border and immigration enforcement. This report cites our Program’s comments, submitted in May 2020, which focus on the United States’ use of…
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Mason Kortz ’14, of the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic, discusses the amicus brief his clinic submitted on behalf of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program regarding device searches at the U.S. border.