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Mihir Desai is a human rights lawyer in cases of mass murders & riots, fake encounter & custodial deaths by the police, police brutality, freedom of speech & journalists, political activists & prisoners of conscience, excesses by the state and war crimes & genocide probes. A senior counsel, he has been practicing criminal matters in the High Court of Mumbai and the Supreme Court of India. ==Career== Desai is the son of Neera Desai, (1925-2009), a leading advocate of Women's rights from a middle-class Gujarati family. As a child he traveled with his mother to Rome and to the United States, where she had a one-year teaching assignment. His uncle ran a firm of solicitors. Desai is a co-founder of the Indian People's Tribunal (IPT) and the Human Rights Law Network, and is a former Director of the India Center for Human Rights and Law.〔 He was co-founder with lawyer Colin Gonsalves of the human rights magazine ''Combat Law''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About )〕 Desai addresses subjects that include illegal acts by the authorities, police brutality and sexual assault. He has assisted survivors of the 2002 Gujarat massacre. He was co-editor of the book ''Women and Law'' (1999).〔 He is an invited member of the India Regional Team of the "Promoting Pluralism Knowledge Programme".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Members of the India Regional Team )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mihir Desai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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