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Sahar Aziz

Sahar Aziz is an associate professor at Texas A&M School of Law where she teaches national security and civil rights law. Aziz is the author of Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective Counterterrorism in a Post-9/11 America. She formerly served as a senior policy adviser to the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the US Department of Homeland Security.

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Dec 10, 2017
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Moving Beyond Politics to Accountability on US Torture Program

Will the United States do what it demands of other nations, and hold its own government officials accountable for torture?
by
Sahar Aziz,
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January 8, 2015
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Op-Ed

Creeping Counterterrorism: From Muslims to Political Protesters

When we allow governments to forfeit our civil rights to protect
by
Sahar Aziz,
Truthout
August 22, 2012
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If High Court Upholds Arizona’s SB 1070, Priests and Rabbis Could Be Prosecuted for Providing Humanitarian Aid

While supporters and opponents rush to opine on the civil rights implications of the court’s decision, few appreciate the serious risks to church autonomy and people of conscience.
by
Sahar Aziz &
Ediberto Roman,
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June 21, 2012
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What’s Behind the Egyptian Military’s Attacks on Civil Society?

In recent weeks Egypt's interim military rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), have stepped up attacks on civil society leaders and pro-democracy activists, accusing them…
by
Sahar Aziz,
Foreign Policy
August 22, 2011
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Op-Ed

It’s Time to Take Back Our Civil Liberties

It took the United States government nearly 10 years to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden in retribution for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Over that same…
by
Sahar Aziz,
Chron
May 24, 2011
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Why Isn’t Jared Lee Loughner a Homegrown Terrorist?

How many more members of Congress have to be victims of politically motivated violence before we acknowledge terrorism is defined by the act and not the identity of…
by
Sahar Aziz,
Truthout
January 12, 2011
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