Arafat Hosen Khan

Arafat Hosen Khan is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Law School, The London School of Economics and Political Science. His research explores constitutional law, democracy, labour rights, and contemporary human rights and political issues in South Asia. He is the author of The Constitution of Bangladesh: People, Politics, and Judicial Intervention (Routledge, 2022). Arafat is qualified as an English Barrister and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He previously served as Chairman of the Department of Law at North South University, Dhaka, and has worked with organisations including the ILO, DFID, USAID, GiZ, UNDP and CHRI. A Chevening Scholar and O’Brien Fellow at McGill University, he is committed to advancing human rights, legal education, and public interest advocacy across national and global forums.

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Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives

Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 2 – Comparative Global South Perspectives

In Part 1, I examined how Bangladesh’s interim government weaponized legal frameworks to suppress the press; Part 2 broadens the lens to parallel patterns across the wider Global South and the international legal responses they ...
Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 1 – Bangladesh

Weaponized Legalism and the Promise-Performance Gap: Press Suppression in Transitional Democracies: Part 1 – Bangladesh

This two-part blog examines how transitional governments in the Global South systematically suppress press freedom through "weaponized legalism"—the use of formally legal procedures to violate fundamental rights while maintaining ...
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