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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This was such a pleasure to moderate, and to learn from @davidakaye.bsky.social an @knundy.bsky.social about an issue that affects everyone around the world. Recording will be up in a few days!

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I am never not on message. Coming at you from spring break at Machu Picchu. #CloseGitmo

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

NGL, my cold dead heart overflowed when he pulled out the flags of the Americas at a moment when the USG is trying to divide and conquer. 😭 😭 👏🏾 👏🏾

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Every year for several years, I’ve had the privilege of welcoming @markfallon.bsky.social as a guest lecturer to my Intl Human Rights and Nat Sec class at Penn Law. And every time, I am blown away from his courage and the example it sets for us now:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Against the backdrop of state terrorism in MN, I’m reading this by my friend Hwang Sokyong, who writes so movingly (and viscerally) about the lasting effects of the Gwangju Uprising. History always repeats itself if given the opportunity.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Really, the only consolation through the absolute massacre of international law at the moment, is the brigade of friends/colleagues in the field who are stepping up in defense. One such rock star, @brfarley.bsky.social, dropped in this evening to explain the law of war to the fine students of Penn:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@marisakabas.bsky.social For anyone who wants the language handy (and willing to opt out even apparently under threat of detention), this is what the CBP website says about the right of US citizens to opt out - I keep it bookmarked on my phone:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Today is the 24th anniversary of the opening of the illegal detention camps at Guantanamo Bay. The establishment/normalization of Gitmo by successive presidents who enjoyed their expanded powers too much led us directly to our present domestic and intl crises. And 15 tortured men still remain there.

Camp X-Ray, the “outdoor dog cages” in which the first detainees were held. Photo taken in 2016 by author.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

If this photo is real, it is a straight line from impunity during the Bush and Obama admins for this exact kind of torture and illegal renditions, to the gross crimes we woke up to this morning.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy holidays to everyone except those who helped keep Gitmo open - going on 24 years.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Flag at half-staff for Dick Cheney at Camp Justice, Guantanamo Bay. Photo taken after arriving on a flight carrying ICE agents involved in the new illegal migrant detentions, which expanded the Gitmo population for the first time since 2002 - Cheney's very dark legacy.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy 4th from Wolfeboro, where patriotic dissent is alive and well. #nokings #noconcentrationcamps #closegitmo

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I spent a morning with the great writer and activist Hwang Sokyong, and it was soul-lifting. Onwards we go.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Pack-out day at Gitmo. Hopefully I boosted the morale of JTF on the “morale bus” with some Lina Makoul.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Reminder: detaining people of color at Guantanamo is not normal or legal or acceptable, whether it started 23 years ago or two months ago, whether it’s DoD or ICE. Horrifying to see these all over Gitmo now.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gitmo-bound, living my best troll life.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Here is what Mahmoud Khalil said to the judge who ordered him deported for his speech: www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

TFW when you realize you’re traveling with your fave sunglasses and also multiple pairs of reading glasses 😎😭 😭 👵🏽

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Spectacular last show by J-Hope in LA tonight; a little inspo in dark times.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Yoon's impeachment upheld *unanimously* by the Constitutional Court. Sitting here in DC in our own constitutional crisis, watching the South Korean people (who wrestled off bloody dictatorship within living memory) re-affirm democratic principles, gives us some hope. (from @koreajoongangdaily.com)👇🏾

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Lawyers: modernmilitary.org/programs/lgb...

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Friends, does this seem smart? (A thousand times, no)

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We all need breaks to build resolve for action, and Han Kang has perfect timing:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

When you’re teaching about security, human rights, law, and accountability in the middle of a democratic crisis, there are few better guest lecturers than the amazing @markfallon.bsky.social 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 @pennlaw.bsky.social

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The "worst of the worst" has always been code for non-citizen, non-white men for whom the U.S. wants to strip all legal rights. As horrifying as it is to see new prisoners touch down at Guantanamo, they bring constitutional protections with them to Gitmo and we will enforce them.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Moments of catharsis during a tough week, with @sunitav.bsky.social at the first 2025 meeting of @hfhr.bsky.social 🪔

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Gitmo gift shop may have jumped the shark. 1. No "vintage cars" here, other than shoddy DoD junkers. 2. Rainbow row houses? Our team is housed in mostly steel trailers. 3. Havana Cathedral is in...Havana. 4. We're not allowed to go to El Yunque. 5. There is a ferry, that one is correct. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Back at Guantanamo for our big throw-out-the-torture-evidence arguments, with good luck in the form of my new GTMO keffiyeh from my friend @mansooradayfi441.bsky.social #dontforgetushere #ceasefirenow

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Grateful to @k-interarma.bsky.social for writing so eloquently what I’ve been feeling for months - and particularly this passage that instructs the opposite of the preemptive obeisance we see from too many corners now:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Truly honored to have been named one of the Korea Democracy Foundation's Global Democracy Goodwill Ambassadors, following my work/research over the past few years with colleagues in SK on torture accountability, including the preservation of torture sites in Seoul, Gwangju, and Jeju Island.

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

One of the great things about living in DC is that you can finish your Thanksgiving meal, go down to the open museums, and catch this Gitmo shade on Pres Obama’s portrait at the NPG:

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One of the most exciting days of my life was spent sorting through Elizabethan torture warrants at @lampallib.bsky.social

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ok, first post! If you know me from Xitter, you'll know what I mean when I ask you to join me at DC Circuit on 12/9 as we continue a 20-yr fight (against the U.S. government) to get my client Ammar al Baluchi vital medical care for medical conditions caused by @CIA torture.

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