Mohamed Naser Alam is a Barrister-at-Law at the Bar of England and Wales, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh with over 30 years of comprehensive legal experience spanning immigration and asylum law, human rights, and sophisticated corporate-commercial practice, with a primary geographic focus on Bangladesh. He combines frontline refugee protection work with deep expertise in Bangladesh’s legal, political, and human rights landscape, making him a highly qualified country expert for cases involving Bangladesh.
He served as Legal Counsellor with the UNHCR Urban Refugee Project in Bangladesh, conducting refugee status interviews, assessing protection claims, analysing country-of-origin information, and assisting with third-country resettlement applications. He appeared as a legal representative in numerous Immigration and Asylum appeals before the IAT. He served as a National Consultant for UKAID (DFID) to review the Police Reform Project, the Access to Justice Project, and the Legal Aid Project in Bangladesh. He has in-depth experience and understanding of human rights abuses, arbitrary detention, custodial torture and death, extra-judicial killings, politically motivated false criminal cases, abuse by the law-enforcing agencies, enforced disappearance, political conflict, political persecution, targeted persecution of minorities, victims of domestic violence, ethnic discrimination, persecution of various social groups, sufficiency of protection, law and procedures in Bangladesh, child custody, forced marriages, illegitimacy and its impact on single mothers and illegitimate children, and related issues. He worked as a Consultant for the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He is regularly consulted by a number of NGOs working for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Consultant on Legislative Drafting.
My expertise encompasses the full spectrum of asylum issues in Bangladesh, derived from direct legal practice and continuous country conditions analysis. I possess in-depth knowledge of protection claims based on political opinion, religious persecution (targeting minorities and sects), gender-based violence, and membership of particular social groups. My work involves assessing risks from state and non-state actors, including patterns of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, and judicial/systemic failures. I routinely analyse the country’s human rights landscape, political dynamics, and legal framework, evaluating the availability and effectiveness of state protection. This expertise is grounded in firsthand casework, ongoing review of authoritative human rights reports, and professional engagement with Bangladesh’s state institutions, enabling detailed, up-to-date testimony on risk profiles and persecution mechanisms.
In my role as the Legal Counsellor for the UNHCR Urban Refugee Project, I produced expert reports on Bangladesh, Somalia, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Myanmar.