Country Witness Expert on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya.
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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.
Human Rights Researcher
Regional Analyst on Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society
Legal Consultant on Refugee and Statelessness Law
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 the East African Great. This includes:
- Political repression, including persecution of opposition parties, civil society leaders, protestors, and independent media.
- Ethnic and tribal violence, including persecution of Tutsi, Hutu, Batwa, Oromo, Amhara, Somali, Banyamulenge, Nuer, Dinka, and other marginalised communities.
- Religious intolerance and targeting of minority or unregistered churches and sects.
- Gender-based violence, including forced marriage, sexual violence, and impunity in both rural and urban areas.
- Harassment, imprisonment, and physical violence against LGBT individuals, particularly under anti-homosexuality laws and social hostility.
- Statelessness and denial of nationality, especially among cross-border communities and children born to refugees.
- Persecution of returnees or diaspora members accused of foreign influence or espionage.
- Arbitrary arrests, torture, and prolonged detention in politically sensitive or ethnically charged cases.
- Suppression of freedom of speech, peaceful assembly, and the press, including cyber-surveillance and criminalisation of dissent.
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 the East African Great. This includes:
- Political repression, including persecution of opposition parties, civil society leaders, protestors, and independent media.
- Ethnic and tribal violence, including persecution of Tutsi, Hutu, Batwa, Oromo, Amhara, Somali, Banyamulenge, Nuer, Dinka, and other marginalised communities.
- Religious intolerance and targeting of minority or unregistered churches and sects.
- Gender-based violence, including forced marriage, sexual violence, and impunity in both rural and urban areas.
- Harassment, imprisonment, and physical violence against LGBT individuals, particularly under anti-homosexuality laws and social hostility.
- Statelessness and denial of nationality, especially among cross-border communities and children born to refugees.
- Persecution of returnees or diaspora members accused of foreign influence or espionage.
- Arbitrary arrests, torture, and prolonged detention in politically sensitive or ethnically charged cases.
- Suppression of freedom of speech, peaceful assembly, and the press, including cyber-surveillance and criminalisation of dissent.
Available upon request and detailed in the expert CV.
English (Fluent)
French (Professional)
Swahili (Professional)
Tigrinya (Basic)