Annahita Moradi
Annahita’s practices involves a range of regional and international human rights mechanisms, and issues of international human rights and criminal law. These include matters of due process, arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment, state hostage-taking, healthcare, natural resources, land, development and employment. Annahita has experience acting in high-profile and sensitive cases involving detention in prisons abroad pending or following domestic criminal procedures, engaging the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Annahita is on the International Criminal Court’s List of Assistants to Counsel, available for instruction on victim and defence teams.
Annahita has a particular interest in claims arising from immigration detention, prisons, and other forms of state custody. Her immigration detention casework includes immigration bails and she is particularly sought for appeal rights exhausted cases and those involving ‘foreign national offender’ categories, extant deportation orders and human trafficking and modern slavery issues. She is retained by the Council of Europe as a legal expert advising on existing international human rights law standards in the context of immigration detention conditions and drafting a guidance for all Member States on this topic.