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Azadeh Shahshahani

Azadeh Shahshahani is a human rights attorney based in Atlanta. She is Legal & Advocacy Director with Project South and a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. 

May 2018

  • ‘How convenient and profitable for wealthy private prisons to exploit detained immigrant labor rather than hire regularly waged employees.’

    Why are for-profit US prisons subjecting detainees to forced labor?

    Azadeh Shahshahani
    Private prisons have for years enriched themselves by exploiting detained immigrant labor. They must be held accountable

February 2018

  • Woman using cell phone by window

    Government spying on immigrants in America is now fair game. What next?

    Azadeh Shahshahani
    Internet activity of all visa applicants, visa holders and green card holders is now tracked. And Sunni Muslim immigrants could face long-term surveillance

December 2015

  • FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

    Immigrants in our detention centers still suffer human rights abuses

    Azadeh Shahshahani and Anton Flores
    A legitimate inspection process would have found that Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, fails to meet basic standards for human rights
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