Experts on countries of origin by surname

I hold a Masters degree in Human Rights and have sixteen years experience living in the Middle East working for national and international human rights and humanitarian organisations in legal, policy and research roles. I have authored numerous in-depth legal and policy reports covering human rights and humanitarian issues in Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq.

I have experience of submitting legal reports to UN human rights treaty body mechanisms and the UN Human Rights Council as well as the Goldberg Committee (Israel).

I have written for many news outlets and contributed to books analysing the conflict, political, social and cultural developments in Syria.

Fazle Elahi is a solicitor specialising in immigration, nationality, human rights and public law, with over 16 years’ legal casework experience. His country expertise relates to Bangladesh, supported by his legal education at the University of Dhaka and his continuing professional focus on immigration, nationality and human-rights issues.

He is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2017 and in Northern Ireland in 2025. He is also an OISC Accredited Level 2 Immigration Adviser. His UK practice includes complex immigration and human-rights applications, asylum-related matters, family migration, nationality, administrative review, appeals, pre-action protocol work and judicial review. He has experience of preparing detailed legal representations, witness evidence and instructions to counsel, and of liaising with the Home Office, courts and tribunals.

Fazle is Co-Founder, Director, Training Principal and a practising solicitor at Square Mile Solicitors. He also provides pro bono immigration advice as an Immigration Solicitor at East Greenwich Legal Advice Clinic and has supervised student advisers in immigration law at Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre. He currently works as a Lecturer and Supervising Solicitor at the University of… Read more

Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, with over 18 years’ experience in legal practice and country expertise on Bangladesh, specializing in political, religious, ethnic, and social group persecution, human rights, and rule of law issues.

I am a Barrister-at-Law of England and Wales and a Practising Lawyer in the Courts of Bangladesh with tact and expertise in International Law or Treaties, Human Rights Law, Immigration Rules and Regulations of the United Kingdom, Asylum, Convention Rights International Relations between Bangladesh and other nations.