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News Statements and LettersNovember 4, 2019

China – BHRC welcomes international actions condemning treatment of Uighur peoples in Xinjiang

BHRC has issued a public statement welcoming two recent developments in the international community condemning the treatment of Uighur peoples in Xingiang. It is estimated that over 1 million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims are being detained in “political education camps”, with millions more subject to restrictions on their liberty. BHRC is deeply concerned that lawyers...

News Publications Statements and LettersOctober 22, 2019

BHRC: The “Gezi Park” trial continues on 8 October 2019 with the ongoing detention of Osman Kavala in Turkey

BHRC: The “Gezi Park” trial continues on 8 October 2019 with the ongoing detention of Osman Kavala in Turkey BHRC has issued a public statement renewing its condemnation of the use of terror charges and prolonged detention as reprisals over the “Gezi Park” trial of sixteen leading civil society individuals, including Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu, following the...

News Publications Statements and LettersSeptember 17, 2019

Joint call by international legal community: Protect Filipino lawyers!

Joint call by international legal community: Protect Filipino lawyers! Today, Bar Human Rights Committee together with 151 international and domestic bar associations, other lawyers’ organizations and legal professionals from 49 countries around the world called on the Government of the Philippines to take all necessary measures to stop the attacks against and extrajudicial killings of lawyers and to...

News Publications Statements and LettersSeptember 13, 2019

BHRC raises serious concern over reports of police brutality in Hong Kong

BHRC has issued a statement raising serious concern about the response by Hong Kong authorities to ongoing protests in Hong Kong, in particular over credible reports of police brutality, violence against protestors and mass arrests of protestors, as well as the Hong Kong Government’s failure to order a full and transparent inquiry into police abuse....

News Publications ReportsSeptember 9, 2019

BHRC joins UPR Submission raising concern for the Philippines’ lawyers

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has endorsed a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council raising concern over the extrajudicial killing of 45 lawyers, prosecutors and judges and 134 human rights defenders assassinated between August 2016 and July 2019 in the Philippines. The submission, written by Lawyers Rights Watch...

News Publications Trial ObservationsSeptember 2, 2019

BHRC trial report on latest stage of Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey confirms ECtHR finding that continued detention is politically motivated

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has published its interim report in the ongoing cases of Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey and Veysel Ok v Turkey. Mr Demirtaş is the well-known former member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Parliament) and Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey’s third largest political...

News Publications ReportsJuly 25, 2019

BHRC publishes event report on Parliamentary session “Hiding in Plain Sight-the extraordinary scale of human rights violations in Xinjiang, China”

On Wednesday 26th June 2019, the Bar Human Rights Committee in conjunction with the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, held an important panel discussion in Parliament to consider the treatment of Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China and to explore how to hold China to account for human rights violations there. It...

News Publications ReportsJuly 18, 2019

BHRC joins International Coalition of Legal Organisations raising concern for Turkey’s lawyers and judges

BHRC is part of an international coalition of legal organisations who have submitted a joint Stakeholder Submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review for Turkey. Alongside BHRC, the coalition includes the Law Society of England & Wales; International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute; Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales; Conseil...

News Publications Trial ObservationsJuly 17, 2019

BHRC: The “Gezi Park” trial forms part of a chilling clampdown on human rights defenders and civil society in Turkey.

BHRC has issued a public statement raising serious concern over the “Gezi Park” trial of sixteen leading civil society individuals, including Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu, which resumes tomorrow in Istanbul. BHRC Chair, Schona Jolly QC, observed the opening of the trial in June 2019 and will continue to monitor the trial this week through our...

News Publications Statements and LettersJuly 11, 2019

INDIA: BAR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE EXPRESSES SERIOUS CONCERN THAT THE RAIDS ON INDIRA JAISING AND ANAND GROVER FORM PART OF A PATTERN OF HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION DIRECTED AGAINST CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS.

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) writes to express its alarm and concern at the raids conducted by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation early this morning at the homes and offices of Senior Advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover in New Delhi and Mumbai. We understand this follows the filing...

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