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Bar Human Rights Committee condemns increasing attacks against Palestinian human rights defenders

May 20, 2016

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today issued a statement expressing serious concern over ongoing threats and attacks directed at Palestinian human rights defenders. BHRC highlights a pattern of death threats, harassment and violence aimed at curtailing the work of Palestinian human rights defenders and activists. This includes death threats issued...

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office responds to BHRC statement on case of Mohamed al-Qiq

April 11, 2016

Following the Bar Human Rights Committee’s recent statement on the case of Mohamed al-Qiq, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government has issued a formal response. Mohamed al-Qiq is a Palestinian journalist who undertook a 94-day hunger strike in protest at his internment without trial under Israel’s administrative detention laws. These laws permit the arrest...

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Milestones in International Criminal Justice: The ICC & Palestine – Meeting Summary

December 2, 2014

‘This is a summary of an event held by the International Law Programme at Chatham House in association with Doughty Street Chambers.1 The meeting examined the implications of the UN General Assembly’s decision to accord Palestine the status of non-member observer state in 2012, issues concerning Palestine’s prospective accession to the Rome Statute, and the...

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