Mutasim Ali is a legal advisor at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and the co-author of an independent legal analysis on alleged breaches of the Genocide Convention in Sudan.
A survivor of the Darfur genocide, Ali was born in 1987 in Daba Naria, near El-Fasher. While studying in Sudan, he founded a grassroots student movement opposing the regime’s persecution of Darfurians and was imprisoned three times, enduring severe torture. During the genocide, he learned that his family had been displaced to a camp and that many relatives and childhood friends had been killed. He ultimately chose exile so he could continue his advocacy, fleeing first to Egypt and then to Israel as a refugee.
Ali later pursued advanced legal studies in the United States, earning an LL.M. in International & Comparative Law at George Washington University. He is currently a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at American University Washington College of Law, where his research focuses on peacemaking and constitution-making in post-conflict states. He is the co-author of A War on Children, a World Complicit, and is a prominent voice calling for justice and accountability for atrocities unfolding in El-Fasher and across Sudan.
