Sarah Belal

As a Reprieve Fellow in Pakistan, Sarah represents prisoners facing the death penalty in the region, focusing on strategic impact cases involving foreign nationals, torture, mental disability and freedom of expression issues.

Sarah is also involved in litigation to challenge Pakistan’s complicity in the extraordinary rendition of Pakistani subjects to illegal secret prisons created by the US.

Sarah qualified as a barrister after completing the Bar Vocational Course in 2007. She obtained her licence to practice in Pakistan in 2008 and gained rights of audience in the High Court in 2008. She studied law at Oxford University and did her professional legal training in Lahore with Azam Nazir Tarrar from 2007-2008, and with Ramday Law Associates under Reza Farooq from 2008.

Sarah now leads a team of lawyers in Lahore. Sarah and her team work closely with Reprieve staff in London and with Reprieve Pakistan Fellow, Sultana Noon.