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Nusrat
Choudhury

Nusrat Choudhury received her B.A. from Columbia University, and is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School. Prior to joining NSP, Choudhury worked as a Marvin A. Karpatkin Fellow in the ACLU's Racial Justice Program and served as a clerk for Judge Barrington D. Parker in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for Judge Denise Cote in the Southern District of New York.

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05/11/2012
No-Fly List

Fighting to Clear Their Names: Appeals Arguments Today for No-Fly List Challenge

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 10:04am
Today in Portland, Ore., I will be in a federal appeals court asking a three-judge panel to reinstate the ACLU's lawsuit challenging the government's secretive ... Read More
03/27/2012
Religious Discrimination

FBI FOIA Docs Show Use of "Mosque Outreach" for Illegal Intel Gathering

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 11:38am
This type of secret intelligence gathering is an affront to religious liberty and the right to equal protection of the law. Read More
02/08/2012
NYPD

Empirical Study Confirms That American Muslims Do Not Pose a Threat of "Homegrown Terror"

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 12:49pm
Today, the N.Y. Times reported that Charles Kurzman, author of a study by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, concludes American Muslims pose ... Read More
12/09/2011
FBI

The Proof is in the Practice: FBI Documents Show Misuse of Community Outreach for Intelligence Gathering and Privacy Act Violations

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 3:28pm
Last week, the ACLU released FBI documents showing that the bureau is secretly and deliberately collecting information about innocent Americans through community ... Read More
12/01/2011
FBI

Big Brother, Come Clean: The FBI is Misusing "Community Outreach" Programs for Intelligence Gathering

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 2:59pm
The FBI is secretly and deliberately collecting information about innocent Americans' First Amendment-protected activities. Read More
10/21/2011
FBI

Mapping the FBI: Documents Show Widespread Racial and Religious Profiling by Government

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 5:12pm
Yesterday, the ACLU unveiled a new initiative — Mapping the FBI — that exposes the ways in which vastly expanded FBI investigative authority has ... Read More
10/07/2011
Anti-Muslim Bias

Biased Counterterrorism Trainings: Far More than One Bad Apple

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 11:19am
On Wednesday, yet another report confirmed the use of factually incorrect and bigoted training materials on Islam and Muslims — this time by the Department of ... Read More
08/25/2011
FOIA

Sounding "Suspicious": Making Sure the FBI Protects Americans AND Our Liberties

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 2:12pm
Today we filed a lawsuit to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking the government for information about a nationwide FBI system called ... Read More
06/13/2011

DHS Should Focus on Criminal Activity, Not Beliefs

By Hina Shamsi, National Security Project & Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 4:34pm
Last week, The Washington Post reported that for the last two years, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) intelligence gathering and analysis unit devoted to ... Read More
05/11/2011

Homeland Security Investigates Questioning of Muslims at the Border

By Nusrat Choudhury, National Security Project at 11:23am
In February 2010, Lawrence Ho sought to return home to the United States after attending a conference in Canada. At the border crossing at Rainbow Bridge in New ... Read More
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