EXCLUSIVE: Q&A With CLEO Hot Shots Melissa Sasidaran, The New Lawyers For Liberty Director

how DO you feel about the appointment?

This is a great honour of course, as Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) for almost a decade has been the leading human rights lawyers organisation in the country. We have taken on cases under extremely challenging circumstances, including arrests and charges under the Sedition Act, Peaceful Assembly Act, Security Offences (Special Measures) Act and other oppressive laws. We also filed numerous strategic litigation cases and took on hard issues such as death in custody, death penalty, and fatal police shooting cases. I am following in the great examples of human rights advocates such as Latheefa Koya, N. Surendran and Eric Paulsen, and so I hope to continue the important work they have done for human rights in the country.