22 Facts About Radha Stirling

Radha Stirling is a human rights advocate, and lawyer, specializing in legal issues in the Middle East.

Radha Stirling is the founder of the United Kingdom-based organisations Detained in Dubai, Due Process International and IPEX Reform.

In 2008, Stirling founded Detained in Dubai, a justice organisation, after her friend, Cat Le-Huy, had been imprisoned in Dubai.

Radha Stirling campaigned for his release; subsequently, she received requests from other people in need of help.

Radha Stirling concluded there was a need for an organisation to assist victims of injustice.

Radha Stirling has worked closely with Senators and Ministers of Parliament; her work with the Australian Parliament ensured provisions to safeguard citizens against human rights violations were included in their extradition treaty with the UAE.

In March 2018, Radha Stirling acted for Herve Jaubert and Sheikha Latifa Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, after she made allegations of abuse and torture against her father, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.

Radha Stirling attended Mater Christi College, in Belgrave, Victoria; Yarra Valley Grammar; Box Hill TAFE and Bond University.

Radha Stirling became active in the Middle East when Cat Le-Huy, a friend, was detained in Dubai.

Radha Stirling led a campaign for his release in 2008, founding Detained in Dubai.

Radha Stirling founded a campaign group, IPEX Reform, specialising in extradition and Interpol cases and is an advocate for policy reform to prevent abuse of Interpol.

Radha Stirling has provided expert witness testimony in UAE and Qatar extradition cases.

Radha Stirling has worked alongside a number of political figures representing her clients and causes.

In 2010, Senator Kroger and Radha Stirling successfully lobbied Australian parliament to install human rights safety provisions into the newly passed extradition treaty between Australia and the UAE.

Radha Stirling has worked with a number of British politicians including Priti Patel who advocated for Asa Hutchinson to be freed by the UAE, Kenny MacAskill for Conor Howard, Emma Lewell-Buck who raised the case of Robert Urwin in Parliament, Crispin Blunt who supported Christopher Emms and Canadian MP Richard Martel and Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Affairs Minister Pamela Goldsmith-Jones to successfully resolve 86 criminal cases against Andre Gauthier in the Gold AE scandal.

Radha Stirling has worked with Lord Timothy Clement-Jones, Baroness Janet Whitaker and Andy Slaughter, MP to call on the Foreign Office to increase their travel warnings and even sanction the UAE over the abuse of Brits in detention.

Radha Stirling founded IPEX Reform, an NGO campaigning for reform of extradition laws and the red notice system.

Radha Stirling has appeared in a number of documentaries and TV shows.

Radha Stirling has appeared on Good Morning Britain, 60 Minutes, ITV's DayBreak, BBC's The Missing Princess, an Aljazeera documentary with Tamer Almisshal, and the Sean Hannity show.

Radha Stirling hosts her own blog and is an author for the Jerusalem Report, the Times of Israel, the Independent and Inside Arabia.

Radha Stirling has focussed on the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah and ruler Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi.

Radha Stirling suggested America should hold foreign states and corporations to account.