Public international law and criminal law Q.C.s and Professors based in Britain join with the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales to urge the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate a preliminary investigation into crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip. In response to the extreme gravity of the situation...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has released today, 21st July 2014, a statement expressing its condemnation of the ongoing killings of civilians in Israel’s latest military assault against the Gaza Strip. It calls upon the international community to take urgent action to bring about an immediate, viable and durable ceasefire....

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) lends its support to an open letter to the Egyptian Ambassador to the United Kingdom signed by 182 practising members of the Bar of England and Wales. The letter expresses dismay at the recent sentencing of the Al Jazeera journalists, Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has released today, 24th June 2014, a statement expressing grave concern at the verdicts, and accompanying sentences, handed down to foreign and national journalists in Egypt yesterday. In the statement, the BHRC calls for the immediate release of all of the journalists and for the State to take urgent...

The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) release today, 20th May 2014, a statement of concern about recent human rights breaches arising out of blasphemy legislation in Pakistan. The statement can be accessed directly here.

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) releases today, 16th May 2014, a statement on the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Baha’i leaders in Iran.   As noted in the statement, ‘the BHRC is concerned that the charges are political and that the subsequent trial faced by the seven did not...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) releases today, 29th April 2014, a statement expressing concern over the convictions and sentencing of 720 defendants to death by an Egyptian court today. BHRC considers the sentences to conclude a fundamentally flawed trial process which is in breach of international law. See full statement here.

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) releases today, 4th April 2014, a statement expressing concern over the prosecution and conviction of Malaysian human rights lawyer Karpal Singh for the crime of sedition.     In the statement, the BHRC calls on the Government of Malaysia to support the quashing of the conviction of Karpal...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (‘BHRC’), Garden Court International, Garden Court Chambers (‘GCI’), Red Lion Chambers (‘RLC’) and Doughty Street Chambers International Criminal Law Team (‘DSC’) release today, 21 March 2014, an Open Letter to Mr. José Antonio Griñán, Chairman of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, regarding the recent reform to...