Doctor of International Relations (PhD, Jilin University, China) and human rights researcher specialising in political opinion, religion, ethnicity, gender-based and LGBT cases, and nationality across South Asia and China. Specialises in country expert reports, document verification, nationality assessments and expert testimony in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Independent country conditions analysis across South Asia and China for asylum and international protection claims.
Areas of expertise include:
• Political persecution, political opinion and opposition activity, including suppression of political dissidents, journalists and human rights defenders
• Persecution of religious minorities (Hazara Shia, Ahmadiyya, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Uyghur Muslim and Tibetan Buddhist communities)
• Ethnic, caste and minority-based discrimination (Dalits, Tamils, Rohingya-origin populations, Nepali-speaking minorities, Uyghurs, Tibetans)
• Gender-based violence, honour crimes, forced marriage and forced conversion
• Women’s rights and protection risks under Taliban rule in Afghanistan
• State violence, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings
• Prison and detention conditions, arbitrary detention and mass surveillance
• Treatment under anti-terror, sedition, blasphemy and national-security laws
• Nationality and statelessness, including returnee and refugee risks
• Suppression of civil society, media and human rights defenders
• Repression of Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists in China, including arbitrary detention and surveillance
• Human trafficking and gender-based exploitation
I specialise in:
• Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum and immigration proceedings
• Document verification and authenticity assessment
• Nationality and statelessness assessments
• Expert testimony, in person or online, before courts and tribunals in the United Kingdom and the United States
Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum, immigration and human rights cases in the United Kingdom and the United States
• Provision of oral expert testimony before UK and US courts and tribunals
• Verification and authentication of documents and country-specific evidence
• Conducting nationality assessments, including statelessness evaluations
• Author of regional research and peer-reviewed publications on persecution
• Contributor to NGO briefings and advocacy documents on women’s rights, religious freedom and political repression
• Research Fellow at academic and research institutions
A full list is provided in my CV.