The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has welcomed today’s news that Egyptian-American charity founder Aya Hegazy has been released from prison after being acquitted of the charges against her, following almost three years of detention in Cairo. Ms. Hegazy is the co-founder of the Belady Foundation for street children, along with her...
6pm, Tuesday 25th April Garden Court North Chambers 3rd Floor, Blackfriars House Parsonage Manchester The Bar Human Rights Committee and Garden Court North Chambers are delighted to announce a special event in Manchester, focusing on opportunities for barristers and students to get involved in BHRC’s international human rights work, followed by a drinks reception. BHRC...
After 1156 days on pre-trial detention, Aya Hegazy will have to wait a further 3 weeks to learn her fate, along with her co-defendants in the Belady Foundation trial in Cairo. The judge had previously indicated that he was ready to deliver his verdict on 23 March 2017. Instead, and without giving any reasons, he...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has sent an open letter to the King of Bahrain, calling for an immediate halt to the planned execution of two prisoners whose convictions are widely believed to have been secured through torture. Husain Ali Moosa and Mohamed Ramadan both face imminent execution, despite evidence that their trial was deeply...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has partnered with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival for a series of screenings of documentary films The Settlers and They Call Us Monsters, taking place at the Barbican and Picturehouse Central in March 2017. The Settlers The Settlers cracks open the world of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank:...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has welcomed the UK Government’s recent decision to reconsider asylum applications from lone child refugees with family links to Britain, following substantial public outcry from BHRC and many others. A written Ministerial statement by Robert Goodwill MP on 8 February 2017 revealed that the Government’s schemes to accept unaccompanied child refugees...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has published a statement of concern calling on the Turkish authorities to protect the fair trial rights of five journalists from the newspaper Taraf. Former Taraf editor Ahmet Altan, deputy editor Yasemin Çongar and journalists Mehmet Baransu. Yıldıray Oğur and Tuncay Opçin currently face unparticularised charges relating to terrorism and security....
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) expresses its grave concern over the recent arrest and prosecution of Pastor Evan Mawarire. Pastor Mawarire fled Zimbabwe to the United States approximately six months ago, following harassment and threats against his life. At the time, he was the leader of the #ThisFlag campaign, a...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has condemned the British Government’s recent announcement that only 150 further child refugees will be admitted to the United Kingdom, under provisions in the Immigration Act commonly referred to as the “Dubs Amendment”. The thousands of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Europe are at the forefront of the refugee crisis that...
The Bar Human Rights Committee has today written to the Turkish Constitutional Court, calling on them to urgently address the thousands of cases pending since Turkey’s abortive coup in July 2016. Since the attempted coup, no cases have yet been heard or resolved. 80,000 cases are currently waiting to be considered by the court, with...
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