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Persecution Expert

Independent persecution analysis for asylum and immigration appeals

Persecution Expert Witness Services

Immigration Tribunal Practice Direction compliant reports for all major persecution grounds.

Persecution Expert provides eight specialist expert report services for UK immigration solicitors, barristers, and Legal Aid practitioners. All reports are prepared by qualified persecution experts with familiarity in UK asylum law, tribunal practice, and persecution analysis methodology.

Political Persecution Analysis

Independent expert analysis of political opinion persecution claims, including actual and imputed opinion, diaspora activity risk, and RT (Zimbabwe) [2012] methodology for UK tribunals.

Religious Persecution Reports

Expert reports on religious persecution grounds including conversion, apostasy, blasphemy accusations, and minority religion targeting under Article 9 of the Qualification Directive.

LGBTQ+ Asylum Expert Reports

Thematic LGBTQ+ persecution analysis applying the HJ (Iran) [2010] standard across all countries, including criminalisation, enforcement, and internal relocation assessment.

Gender-Based Persecution Analysis

Expert reports on FGM, forced marriage, honour-based violence, domestic violence, and women as PSG claims under UNHCR gender persecution guidelines.

PSG Identification and Analysis

Particular social group definition and social perception analysis for complex PSG claims including trafficking victims, clan membership, and class-based persecution.

Non-State Actor Persecution Reports

Analysis of persecution by criminal gangs, family, community groups, and terrorist organisations with state protection sufficiency assessment.

State Protection Assessment

Three-part state protection analysis: existence, adequacy, and accessibility of protection mechanisms for the specific appellant profile and location.

Internal Relocation Analysis

Assessment of whether internal relocation within the country of origin provides a viable and reasonable alternative to international protection.

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