Dr. Moheb Mudessir

Dr. Moheb Mudessir is a London-based legal scholar, international human rights advocate, and journalist with more than two decades of experience at the intersection of law, media, and civil society. He currently serves as a prosecutor before the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, where he is part of the team preparing the formal indictment of the Taliban’s system of gender persecution to be presented in Madrid in October 2025.

Dr. Mudessir holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law from the University of Sussex, with doctoral research on the rights of minority and marginalized groups in Afghanistan. He also earned an LLM in Public International Law and a BA in Law and International Relations. His academic and advocacy work focuses on human rights protection, with particular expertise in minority rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, gender justice, and press freedom. His publications address issues of state responsibility, impunity, and the role of international institutions in advancing accountability.

Before his academic career, Dr. Mudessir spent over 20 years as a journalist and senior presenter with the BBC World Service, where he reported extensively on human rights, geopolitics, security, and conflict across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, Iran, and the Middle East.

Through his combined legal and journalistic experience, Dr. Mudessir works to advance accountability under international law while amplifying the voices of Afghan women and documenting their struggle for justice and recognition.