Sadakat Kadri

Sadakat Kadri (born 1964 in London) is a lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist.

One of his foremost roles as a barrister was to assist in the prosecution of former Malawian president Hastings Banda.

As a member of the New York Bar he has worked as a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union.

[4] Kadri's parallel travel writing career started with a visit to Prague during the 1989 Velvet Revolution, as one of only a handful of 'non-journalists' who actually observed the reality of the changes without being hamstrung by press conferences and filing deadlines.

[5] His 2005 book, The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson was written after two and a half years spent in Manhattan, having arrived shortly before September 11, 2001.