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The Expert is fully aware of the United Kingdom immigrant law in all categories regulated by the OISC.
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The Expert is an existing qualified solicitor in Iran
David Seddon - specialist in politics and human rights especially in Franco-phone and Arabic- speaking Africa and the Middle East - experience of expert reports especially on subject of social/ethnic/political groups at risk of persecution, brutal and degrading treatment and torture.
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Dr Chris Smith has completed over 2,000 expert witness reports on Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan since 2005, primarily for the UK courts but also in Australia, Canada and the USA.
Most recent one month research visit to Northern Sri Lanka in March 2019 (Northern and Eastern Provinces). Will visit again later in 2019 for Country Guidance research.
Oral expert evidence in all recent Sri Lankan Country Guidance cases from LP to GJ and Others. Commissioned for forthcoming CG on sur place activities.
Also, India, especially Tamil Nadu and Khalistan and LGBTQ. Research visits to India and Pakistan are planned for early-2020.
Extensive field work and publications record in India from 1983, including PhD on India’s defence industry and security sector (1988) and two year tenure at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies/United Nations University (Delhi) (1983-85).
Expert witness research trip planned for early-2020 (Chandigarh, Delhi, Chennai etc). Focus upon LGBTQ, anti-terrorist operations, security sector,
Also, extensive fieldwork on Pakistan, especially illegal weapons proliferation, security sector, governance, human rights. Further field research on Ahmadi, Christian, LGBTQ planned for early-2009.
The Expert is an Associate Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the Director of the African Studies Program. She is a Political Scientist with a particular interest in citizenship, migration and political development in Africa. She is the author of Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender and National Identity in Ethiopia (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and her other publications have focused on the role of political institutions in addressing conflict based largely on ethnic and language identities.
The Expert is a Political scientist and Middle East specialist based in Edinburgh, UK. He has extensive experience living in and researching the Middle East, with a particular focus on political Islam, intra-regional dynamics and state-society relations under authoritarianism. Fluent in written and spoken Arabic.
BBC journalist, film-maker and broadcaster with extensive experience of travelling to and investigating human rights abuses in Russia, including Chechnya, Belarus and other parts of the former USSR. Also considerable experience working with victims of human rights abuses in location in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Israel / Palestine, China, Turkey and Cuba.