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Reflections from the ongoing 9/11 pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay

May 8, 2024

BY ZIMRAN SAMUEL MBE, Member of the BHRC Executive Committee & Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers In 2019, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) became the only UK- based organisation to be granted official observer status for the ongoing trials in the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Zimran Samuel MBE (BHRC Executive...

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BHRC launches update to Guantanamo Military Commissions Trial Observation Report with a virtual panel event

June 2, 2023

On 01 June 2023, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) launched its latest Guantanamo Military Commissions Trial Observation Report with a virtual panel event. Chaired by Stephen Cragg KC, Chair of BHRC, this event brought together an expert panel which consisted of J Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights...

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Register now for the BHRC Guantanamo Trial Observation Report Launch on Zoom

May 19, 2023

Since it was opened over twenty years ago, Guantánamo Bay detention camp has been at the forefront of the United States’ “War on Terror”. From its peak of 780 detainees in 2005, 30 people still remain incarcerated at Guantánamo in “law-of-war” detention. Of these, 20 have been recommended for release with security arrangements to another...

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BHRC Trial Observation Report-Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

April 26, 2022

Further to a highly welcomed decision by the US to approve BHRC as one of only two non-US NGOs with International Observer status, BHRC has for many years kept a watching brief on the use of the detention facility at the United States Naval Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and procedural developments in the Military Commissions...

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BHRC issues Amicus to the Guantanamo Bay Military Tribunal on torture derived evidence

February 22, 2019

BHRC published its amicus brief to the Guantanamo Bay Military Tribunal in the case of Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al Baluchi. Kirsty Brimelow QC, former Chair of BHRC (2012-2018) and co-writer of the amicus said: “Guantanamo Bay remains a stain in legal history. Currently prosecutions are attempting to secure a footing...

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The Bar Human Rights Committee strongly encourages urgent action in the Guantanamo Bay cases involving detainees captured by the United States as juveniles

May 12, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TUESDAY 12 MAY 2009 LAWYERS CALL FOR URGENT ACTION ON JUVENILE DETAINEES HELD IN GUANTANAMO BAY The Bar Council, the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association and the Bar Human Rights Committee have today called on the Attorney General of the United States of America to take urgent...

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Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair concerning the continued incarceration of the Guantanamo Bay detainees

November 14, 2003

Read the letter here.

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BHRC submits Al Nashiri amicus brief to the Court of Military Commission Review

September 30, 2023

On 18th August 2023 the Military Commission in the case of United States of America v Al-Nashiri gave a ruling on a request for the suppression (or exclusion) of statements made by Mr Al-Nashiri to US Government officials in January 2007 after he was officially returned to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility following four years...

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Farewell from our outgoing Chair, Schona Jolly QC

December 16, 2021

As I approach the end of my term as Chair of BHRC, I write to share what an immense privilege it has been to lead this organisation, and its committed Executive Committee, members and staff through a turbulent period for human rights across the world. As the pandemic has devastated individual lives, so too...

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September 1, 2020

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