With the American Civil Liberties Union, Canadian Jameel Jaffer has forced revelations about prisoner torture and death in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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He hails from a line of Ismaili Muslims, migrant adventurers and traders originally from Gujarat. His pharmacist father and librarian mother were raised in East Africa.
In 1969, they left Tanzania for Canada and started a family in Ontario. Mr. Jaffer studied at Upper Canada College before going to Harvard Law School.
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Bravo and well done! Thank you for standing up for the marginalized.
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