Amir Hariri is a Chevening scholarship recipient for the 2021/2022 session and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom in the field of politics of Asia at the SOAS University of London.

In 2015, together with student and youth activists, he co-founded Gerakan Anak Muda Demi Malaysia (later known as the Democratic People's League) and was appointed as its first Secretary General.

After completing his studies, he was appointed as the coordinator of the Sedition Act Abolition Movement (GHAH), a coalition of more than 100 non-governmental organizations to urge the government to repeal the law.

Amir Hadi, as SUARAM's senior coordinator, is the individual responsible for leading the campaign to free Siti Noor Aishah and abolish the law of detention without trial.

Siti Noor Aishah is a Universiti Malaya postgraduate student in the field of Usulluddin (Creed), who has been arrested by the police on charges of being involved with a terrorist group.

Amir Hariri, as the organiser of the gathering, had failed to inform the police officer in charge of Dang Wangi district five days before holding the assembly in front of the Sogo Complex in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman at 2 pm on Aug 14.