Statements and Letters – Page 12 – Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales

News Publications Statements and LettersJanuary 25, 2018

BHRC writes letter to Nepalese PM regarding the death of protestors and police in the Terai region

BHRC has published an open letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal raising concern for the government’s response to the death of 66 people, including 10 police officers in the Terai region of Nepal in 2015 and 2016. The protests began in the final weeks of Nepal’s protracted constitution drafting process. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake which...

News Publications Statements and LettersJanuary 24, 2018

BHRC issues joint statement on Day of the Endangered Lawyer

BHRC and the Bar Council have issued a joint statement for the 8th Day of the Endangered Lawyer, standing in solidarity beside lawyers associations in Europe and around the world, with those lawyers in Egypt who face persecution in furtherance of the protection of the rule of law. The joint statement highlights the persecution lawyers in Egypt face,...

News Publications Statements and LettersDecember 12, 2017

BHRC calls for release of Li Yuhan as China’s arrest of human rights lawyers continues

BHRC has released a statement calling for the immediate release of and production of evidence against Li Yuhan, a Chinese lawyer known to have defended numerous human rights cases over 26 years in practice. BHRC also calls upon the Chinese authorities to affirm, enforce and ensure full respect for fundamental rights of human rights defenders...

News Publications Statements and LettersNovember 16, 2017

BHRC raises concern for Bahraini activist’s family

BHRC has published an open letter to the King of Bahrain calling for a review of the convictions and sentences against Sayed Nazar Naama Baqqer Ali Yusuf Alwadaei, Hajar Mansoor Hasan and Mahmood Marzooq Mansoor. The defendants are close relatives of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, the founder of the London based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD). Alwadaei...

News Publications Statements and LettersOctober 25, 2017

BHRC calls for the release of the Istanbul 10

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...

News Publications Statements and LettersSeptember 20, 2017

BHRC raises concern for lawyers in Tanzania amid shooting of Law Society President

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....

Publications Statements and LettersAugust 17, 2017

BHRC releases statement of concern for detention of Law Society President in Tanzania

BHRC has released a statement of concern for Tundo Lissu, the president of the Tanganyika Law Society. Tundu Lissu was arrested on 20th July 2017 at the Julius Nyerere International airport in Dar es Salaam, when he was on his way to Kigali, Rwanda to represent the TLS at the East African Civil Society Governing...

News Statements and LettersAugust 14, 2017

On eve of human rights advocate’s trial, BHRC calls on China to release detained lawyers and human rights defenders

BHRC has published a statement raising serious concern over the continued detention of human rights defenders in China and their inability to access defence lawyers of their choosing, particularly Wang Quanzhang, the longest-detained lawyer of the 709 Crackdown, and Wu Gang, an administrative assistant and human rights advocate whose trial is scheduled to begin today. Wang Quanzhang...

News Publications Statements and LettersAugust 4, 2017

BHRC and Bar Council reach out to Mugabe over Zimbabwe’s plans for the judiciary

A joint letter signed by the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and the Bar Council of England and Wales has been sent to the President of Zimbabwe calling for him to veto a Bill proposing changes to judicial appointments that would threaten the independence of the judiciary and undermine the rule of...

News Publications Statements and LettersAugust 3, 2017

On the Third Anniversary of the Massacre at Sinjar, the Global Justice Center and Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales Call for Justice for the Yazidi Genocide

Today is the third anniversary of the massacre at Mount Sinjar where ISIS fighters murdered thousands of Yazidi men and enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and girls. Despite the fact that the UN and the European Parliament have accepted that crimes committed against the Yazidis constitute genocide, there has not been a single prosecution of...

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