Shiraz Maher
Shiraz Maher holds a degree in History from the University of Leeds and an MPhil in Historical Studies from Cambridge University. After leaving university, he worked as a journalist, reporting on terrorism, radicalization and the Middle East. He has reported for some of the BBC's flagship current affairs programmes including Newsnight, Panorama, Our World, World News America, the World Service and Radio 4. His writings have appeared in the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, Wall Street Journal and Standpoint. Maher was subsequently a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange where he worked on Security, Counter-Terrorism and Foreign Policy. Last year he published "Choosing our Friends Wisely: Criteria for Engagement with Muslim Groups", a detailed study of the 'Prevent' aspect of the UK government's counter-terrorism strategy, exposing weaknesses in its application and practice. His paper also proposed a new theoretical framework to reform the initiative, arguing for the creation of a values-led approach in 'Prevent'.
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Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
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