Country Witness Expert on Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, East Timor, and Malaysia
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Expert at The Human Rights Experts, an international expert witness organisation.
We provide expert witness reports for asylum cases worldwide, covering human rights violations, political persecution, and systemic oppression. Our reports are trusted by lawyers, courts, and immigration authorities, in full compliance with procedural standards and tribunal requirements in the UK (CPR Part 35, Upper Tribunal PD, First-tier Tribunal IAC PD), USA (Federal Rules of Evidence), Canada, and the EU.
Winner of the Expert Witness Awards in the category of Best Immigration, Asylum & Refugee Expert Witness 2024.
Human Rights Specialist
Legal and Political Risk Analyst
Regional Researcher on State Persecution and Civil Conflict
I provide expert analysis on all five Refugee Convention grounds: political opinion, religion, ethnicity, membership of a particular social group (including LGBT and gender-based cases), and nationality, with a focus on Southeast Asia.
This includes:
- Political persecution of opposition members, democracy activists, students, and civil society leaders.
- Religious repression affecting minority sects, converts, and independent religious communities.
- Ethnic discrimination against Rohingya, Montagnards, Khmer Krom, Papuans, and other indigenous and stateless groups.
- Gender-based violence and systemic abuse of women and girls, including trafficking and forced marriage.
- Targeting of LGBT+ individuals through criminalisation, social exclusion, and violence.
- Suppression of press freedom and expression, surveillance, and reprisals against dissent.
- Arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killings by military and police forces.
Forced displacement, statelessness, and denial of nationality for persecuted minorities and undocumented groups.
- Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum, immigration, and human rights cases
- Provision of oral testimony before courts and tribunals
- Verification and authentication of documents and country-specific evidence
- Conducting nationality assessments, including statelessness evaluations
- Author of regional research and publications on human rights violations in Southeast Asia
- Contributor to national reports and NGO briefings on persecution and state violence
- Expert member of The Human Rights Experts
► Full professional experience is available in the CV. Please email us to receive the detailed expert CV.
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Tagalog (Fluent)
Burmese (Professional)
Bahasa Indonesia (Professional)