As the trial opens for Amnesty Turkey Director İdil Eser and the other human rights defenders known as the Istanbul 10, BHRC reiterates its condemnation of their continued detention and calls for their release. The Istanbul 10 were arrested on 5 July 2017 and accused of “committing crimes as part of a terrorist organisation without being...
BHRC has released its fact-finding report, “Breakdown: the dismantling of the Calais “Jungle” and of the promises to its unaccompanied children”. BHRC Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC said: “The unaccompanied children of Calais have faced horror, both in their home countries and in France, in “the Jungle” camp. Nearly a year later, the horror continues as children...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has submitted an official petition for clemency to the Bahraini Government on behalf of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa, two men facing imminent execution in Bahrain. Mr Ramadhan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain; both men insist that...
BHRC is excited to announce the speakers for our panel entitled “In the middle of our own historical wrong: the plight of refugees.” Lord Alfred Dubs, actor and activist Vanessa Redgrave and the former President of the UK Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chambers Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey. The panel will be chaired by BHRC...
BHRC Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC served as moderator for the first UN Workshop on Witchcraft and Human Rights. The two day workshop was the first of its kind at the international level and brought together UN experts, academics and members of civil society to discuss the belief of witchcraft, in all its manifestations, and its...
BHRC, with the Bar Council and Law Society, have signed an open letter to the President of Tanzania condemning the violence against lawyers in Tanzania. The letter comes in the wake of the shooting of Tundu Antiphas Mughwai Lissu, the President of the Tanganyika Law Society, just weeks after being arrested by Tanzanian officials under questionable circumstances....
BHRC Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC sat down with CNBC Africa during her visit to the Nigerian Bar Association Annual Conference. Brimelow and Executive Officer Amanda June Chadwick attended the conference at the invitation of the Nigerian Bar Association President A.B. Mahmoud, SAN to meet and discuss the human rights situation in the northeast. The five...
BHRC released its trial observations from the first substantive proceedings against journalists in Turkey in June 2017. The trial observation report raises serious concern over violations of international law and fair trial rights in Turkey. BHRC trial observer Pete Weatherby QC attended the first three days of the proceedings against seven journalists in the case...
London, 1st September 2017 BHRC today welcomes the release from detention in Yaounde of 54 Cameroonians from the South West and North West Anglophone regions. The individuals were on trial for alleged crimes associated with terrorist actions against the State, to which BHRC and other organisations have raised concerns. All charges have been dropped against...
Since the failed coup in July 2016, the Turkish government has detained and charged thousands of journalists, lawyers, judges and human rights defenders with accusations of involvement in the coup or providing support to terrorist organisations linked to the coup. After months in detention, trials are finally starting to commence. Many human rights organisations, including...
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