Mahvish Rukhsana Khan

Mahvish Rukhsana Khan (born July 8, 1978) is a Pashtun-American lawyer and writer.

She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government and from the University of Miami School of Law with a Juris Doctor.

While still in University of Miami School of Law, Khan, who speaks Pashto, and whose parents are Pashtun, worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. After visiting the military base, she wrote of her experiences in The Washington Post in 2006. She reported that Mousavi told her of having faced serious abuse, including a week of confinement in a coffin-sized box, beatings, stress positions, and being soaked with freezing cold water.

Khan is now providing supervised legal counsel for one Afghan detainee at Guantanamo.