Nancy Hollander

Hollander represented Slahi until 2016, when he was released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.^[7][8] The film The Mauritanian is based on the story of Slahi's capture, torture, and detention, and Hollander's fight to win his release.^[9][10]

Hollander also represents Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, who was tortured at CIA black sites and has been at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. Hollander won two judgments for al-Nashiri from the European Court of Human Rights, resulting in damages to al-Nashiri.^[11][12]

Hollander was lead counsel for Chelsea Manning's unsuccessful military appeal,^[13] but filed a successful application for commutation of Manning's sentence in 2017.^[14]

Hollander has been a partner at Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward, P.A., in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1983.^[15]

Hollander was married to Todd Gitlin, an activist and academic associated with the New Left movement. With him, she co-wrote Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago.^[16]