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Talha Ahmad is a British barrister and London based rights activist. He served as the Treasurer of Muslim Council of Britain from 2016 to 2018. He is the co-chair of Stand Up to Racism. [1]
Talha became a barrister from Lincoln's Inn in 2010, and is currently a solicitor & advocate of the higher courts in England & Wales, specialising in Civil & Commercial Litigation, Charity, Property and family law. He is Director & Solicitor-Advocate (Civil & Criminal) of LeasideLaw Solicitors since 2018. [2]
As part of the National Council, and later, the executive committee of the Muslim council of Britain (MCB), Talha Ahmad served in various capacities, among them the chair at the Membership Committee from 2010 to 2014, and its Treasurer from 2016 to 2018. He was also one of the candidates for the position of the office of Deputy Secretary General of the MCB for 2018–2020. [3]
Talha Ahmad is also the co-chair of Stand Up To Racism. [4]
He was a Council Member of Citizens UK, and Chair of Home Start Tower Hamlets. [5]
He is also active in administrative bodies of several Muslim community institutions such as Bordesley Green Islamic Centre and Darul Ummah Redbridge. [3]
As a spokesperson for the MCB, Talha made many media appearances, on issues such as the refugee crisis, racism in the UK, the Trojan Horse affair, and broader Muslim politics in the region. His notable appearances on TV include at the BBC Newsnight programme, BBC Sunday Politics, BBC Daily Politics, BBC Radio 4 Today, ITV Good Morning Britain, Channel 4 News, Aljazeera, CNN and SKY News. [3] [6]
Talha has also spoken and written on the war-crimes trials in Bangladesh in Aljazeera and Turkish state broadcaster TRT World, raising questions on the fairness of the trials and identifying them as political persecution of the opposition. [7] [8]
He is also the host of the talk show The Conversation on TV ONE UK, an English and Bangla TV channel directed at Muslim audiences in the UK and Europe. [9]
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