About Murtaza Shaikh

Murtaza Shaikh is Head of Law at Averroes and Legal & Political Officer for the Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy. He also sits on the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales and is a PhD candidate at SOAS Law School. Currently he is seconded to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation as Conflict Prevention and Resolution Fellow.

Articles by Murtaza Shaikh

The prolonged detention of Babar Ahmad is a failure of both politics and the law

As Babar Ahmad looks set to face extradition to the US for his alleged involvement with a jihadist propaganda website the eight years he spent in detention testify to a disgraceful manipulation of loopholes in the British legal system.  

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