Shayana D. Kadidal is an American lawyer and writer. Kadidal has worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City since 2001, and is senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative there, coordinating legal representation for the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Previously a writer on patent, drug and obscenity law, since 2001 he has played a role in various notable human rights cases, including: {| class="wikitable" border="1" | CCR v. Bush || Challenging the wireless wiretaps of the lawyers who volunteered to aid Guantanamo captives. |- | Turkmen v. Ashcroft || Individuals suing the former Attorney General for how they were rounded up following al Qaeda's attack on September 11, 2001. |- | Vulcan Society of Black Firefighters || A discriminatory hiring case, in New York City. |- | Sikh Coalition || Opposing religious discrimination on the part of the New York Transit Authority. |} Guantanamo clients Kadidal has worked on behalf of a number of the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. As Senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Kadidal has coordinated defense of Guantanamo detainees, spoken, written and been interviewed widely as an expert on the legal implications of these cases. On January 8, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights published a list of the Lead Petitioner's Counsel in Guantanamo Habeas Cases. Kadidal was listed as the counsel for Murat Kurnaz and Moazzam Begg. On July 18, 2008, Shayana D. Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a status report on Al Halmandy v. Bush No. 05-CV-2385 (RMU) on behalf of seven Guantanamo captives Kadidal wrote that of the 63 captives initially listed in the petition, all but those seven had either been repatriated, or were named in other petitions. Wilner v. NSA Kadidal represents 23 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees who believe they had been subjected to a warrantless wiretap. The 23 suspect they had been the target of surveillance because they volunteered to assist Guantanamo captives. They filed a Freedom of Information Act request, Wilner v. NSA, for the National Security Agency's records of their wiretaps. As part of the FOIA request Kadidal wrote: Other work After graduating from Yale Law in 1994, Kadidal worked in a number of areas before becoming involved in civil