Mahbub, Saqeb
Saqeb Mahbub is a UK-educated Barrister, independent judicial reform consultant and part-time Lecturer at North South University based in Bangladesh. Besides legal practice, the expert is regularly consulted by international organisations such as UNDP, UNHCR and USAID. He has conducted research, advisory and consultancy work in Bangladesh on the formal and informal justice systems, freedom of speech and other political rights, anti-corruption, violence against women, minority rights, etc. Saqeb Mahbub has produced expert reports for UK and US courts and tribunals covering the following topics:
(i) Political situation in Bangladesh (including in-depth analysis of all the political parties (BNP, Jamaat, etc), senior and local leaders of opposition parties);
(ii) The criminal justice system;
(iii) Laws curtailing free speech, state attitude towards opposition;
(iii) Judicial independence;
(iv) Freedom of speech;
(v) Extra judicial killings;
(vi) Enforced disappearances;
(vii) Police Harassment;
(viii) Ghost and False cases;
(ix) Persecution of human rights defenders;
(x) Persecution of LGBTQ community members;
(xi) Persecution of religious minorities and violent extremism;
(xii) Persecution… Read more