Reed Brody, European press director, is author of three Human Rights Watch reports on US mistreatment of prisoners in the "war on terror." He is lead counsel for the victims in the case of the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, who faces trial in Senegal, and coordinated Human Rights Watch's intervention in the prosecution of Augusto Pinochet. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Brody led UN teams investigating massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo and observing human rights in El Salvador; he coordinated an international legal team prosecuting human rights crimes in Haiti; and served as executive secretary of the International Commission of Jurists and as assistant attorney general of New York State. Brody graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University and has a law degree from Columbia University. He speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Chad: The Victims of Hissene Habre Still Awaiting Justice (July 12, 2005)

Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the US Abuse of Detainees (April 24, 2005)

The Road to Abu Ghraib (June 9, 2004)

Articles

"Autumn of the Patriarch," Mail and Guardian Online, December 18, 2006

 "Pinochet: Justice and the General," International Herald Tribune, December 11, 2006

 "Will the New U.N. Council Get Serious about Human Rights," Mail & Guardian, April 12, 2006