International Barrister, specialising in Extradition, INTERPOL, Immigration, Human Rights & International Law @5SAHLaw & https://teapawt.org/t.co/NGjGrz1EvQ @rednoticemon
London, England
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Ben Keith retweeted
An ordinary evening with family. Jimmy Lai has not had one in nearly 6 years.
Jimmy, 78, is serving a 20-year sentence in Hong Kong for publishing a pro-democracy newspaper. He is held in solitary confinement, in fragile health, far from his wife and children.
Jimmy should be at this table, not in a prison cell.
#FreeJimmyLai #BringHimHome
Sudanese opposition politician Yassir Arman was detained at Nairobi airport in 2025 on a Red Notice requested by Sudan. Kenya recognised the political character within a day and released him. The outcome was right. The system still delivered him to a cell first.
Ryan Cornelius has been in a Dubai prison for eighteen years. His sentence ended in 2018. Twenty more were added over a debt a Bahraini court found discharged. Three UN mandates warn it risks becoming a death sentence. Rhys Davies and I represent him. The UAE must release him.
A politically motivated prosecution usually looks like an ordinary case: a charge, a file, a prosecutor, a courtroom. The hallmarks: a target whose interests run against the state, charges too complex to unravel or too broad to mean anything, a court that decided before it sat.
IHR Advisors is the practice Rhys Davies and I built for the cases national courts cannot reach: INTERPOL notices, politically motivated prosecutions, arbitrary detention, sanctions, UN and regional human rights bodies. London and The Hague. ihr-advisors.com
A Red Notice rarely comes alone. Behind it there is often an extradition request, sometimes a sanctions listing, and a prosecution in a court the requesting state controls. Each feeds the others, so we take the whole case. Rhys Davies and I explain. youtube.com/watch?v=IBW6_QvX…
Oman held Mariam Abdelbasette in her hospital bed after she gave birth, on a claim that a Red Notice existed. No domestic process could help her. With an NGO and journalists we took the case public. Oman demanded the coverage stop, then backed off. She has left with her children.
Human rights arguments rarely win a Red Notice challenge alone. INTERPOL reads Article 2 narrowly. A bundle of country reports on a flawed justice system seldom moves the CCF. What lands is concrete violations against the applicant: fabricated evidence, confessions under duress.
Ben Keith retweeted
Two Uyghur refugees held in Thailand since 2014 were pardoned and moved to Bangkok IDC on Oct 21.
Since then no lawyers, rights groups or NHRCT allowed in. Requests unanswered.
Today China met Thailand's NSC.
In 2025, an NSC decision sent 40 Uyghur men back to China.
Dismantling the rules that made Britain attractive to international wealth is the most significant strategic miscalculation in UK economic policy since Brexit. I made the case in Family Office Magazine. The families who would have chosen London are choosing elsewhere.
Ben Keith retweeted
@BenCAKeith has been nominated for Lawyer of the Year (Reputation) at the @SpearsMagazine Awards 2026.
🎉Congratulations to all finalists. The winner will be announced at the Spear’s Awards ceremony on 3 November 2026.
Find out more here: bit.ly/4hA1PSd
Ben Keith retweeted
Dubai Islamic Bank @DIBtoday assured its regulator it could sell Ryan Cornelius’s land and clear his alleged debt anytime. Instead, it kept the land, still claimed the debt was unpaid and, after Ryan served 10 years in prison, applied to extend his sentence by another 20 years.
Ben Keith retweeted
Please watch this short film. It’s about the shocking UAE raider attack on two UK citizens (Ryan Cornelius and Charles Ridley) who have now been held in Dubai jail unjustly for 18 years so their captors can keep their property which is now worth $3 billion.
Dubai Islamic Bank @DIBtoday assured its regulator it could sell Ryan Cornelius’s land and clear his alleged debt anytime. Instead, it kept the land, still claimed the debt was unpaid and, after Ryan served 10 years in prison, applied to extend his sentence by another 20 years.
I file four or five UN applications a year and usually get a decision within a year. Most do not. Special Rapporteurs told me that with one junior staffer between them, a case must be exceptional before they act. Whether the UN hears you in time is a lottery.
The World Bank and the regional development banks run their own sanctions system. A debarment is decided on the balance of probabilities, no court tests it before it takes effect, and the other banks honour it. It carries criminal-scale consequences without criminal safeguards.
Ben Keith retweeted
For years, Lana Nusseibeh has used her position to vehemently deny and divert attention from the UAE’s war crimes in Yemen and support for the abusive Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, says @hrw's @BrunoStagno
Ben Keith retweeted
Her disinformation about the UAE’s rights record, particularly her dismissal of the UN’s own reports documenting the UAE’s links to the RSF, has seriously undermined justice and accountability for the victims, @hrw's @BrunoStagno
Ben Keith retweeted
🚩Lana Nusseibeh has a long record of whitewashing UAE rights abuses in Sudan & Yemen:
She repeatedly denies the UAE provides military support to the RSF & defended UAE as complying w/ IHL during its intervention in Yemen, dismissing evidence of abuses 👇
hrw.org/news/2026/10/28/uae-…
