Paul Reza Afshar is a British Iranian born in Bradford, Yorkshire. [1]
Since 2020 he has helped spearhead a national cladding campaign [2] to prevent hundreds of thousands of flat owners across the UK from having to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding that caused the Grenfell Tower fire, leading to the deaths of 72 people [3].
Afshar lead a campaign [4] to free a 16-year-old boy detained by Chinese authorities because his parents spoke out against the Communist regime. He lived in China for four years [5].
He has written about the challenges of navigating university having grown up in a working-class family in Yorkshire [6].
- ^ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/paul-reza-afshar/oxford-social-mobility_b_9129744.html
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/world/europe/UK-grenfell-cladding-relief.html
- ^ https://leftfootforward.org/2021/02/labour-is-calling-for-urgent-action-as-millions-live-in-flats-covered-in-grenfell-style-cladding/
- ^ https://twitter.com/paulrezaafshar/status/655690192557383684
- ^ https://asiatimes.com/2015/10/xi-in-uk-the-pyrrhic-victory-for-chinas-pr-machine/
- ^ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/paul-reza-afshar/oxford-social-mobility_b_9129744.html