Biography

Warisha Farasat is an alumnus of the NLSIU, Bangalore and Columbia Law School, where she was a Henkin Stoffel Fellow. She worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, where she advised governments, international tribunals, survivor networks, and civil society organisations on international criminal law, reparations, truth commissions, and transitional justice. She has been litigating in India where she is at the forefront of legal defense in criminal trials and constitutional cases involving minorities, marginalized communities, intellectual and political dissidents and journalists who have been wrongly booked under draconian national security and other laws. She has been widely published on human rights, freedom of speech and expression, international criminal law, international law, peace, and transitional justice.