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New national security law demonstrates a “chilling contempt” for the principles, fundamental rights and freedoms in Hong Kong

June 30, 2020
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) is deeply concerned at the news this morning that the national security law in Hong Kong has been passed unanimously by the National People’s Congress in Beijing, without either meaningful consultation on the law or without its advance publication. The details or text of the...
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BHRC Chair & IBAHRI Director Issue Joint Statement raising concern over Hong Kong Fugitive Law for Conference on Extradition and Human Rights

June 11, 2019
BHRC Chair Schona Jolly QC and IBAHRI Director Helena Kennedy QC have issued the following joint statement for the Centre for Comparative and Public Law Conference “Extradition and Human Rights: Does the Hong Kong Government’s Bill Provide Sufficient Safeguard for Our Rights“: The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) and the Human...
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BHRC joins 31 organisations around the world calling for the release of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Quanzhang

January 30, 2019
BHRC has joined a statement with 31 other organisations calling for the acquittal of  Wang Quanzhang, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer arrested during the 709 Crackdown. On 28 January 2019, Mr Wang was found guilty of “subversion of state power” and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison and 5-year deprivation of political...
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Lawyers Associations join forces to raise concern for the rule of law and the legal profession in Turkey for the Day of the Endangered Lawyer

January 24, 2019
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has joined ten other Bar Associations, Law Societies and Legal Organisations in a joint declaration concerning the breakdown of the rule of law and serious threats against the independence of Judges, Lawyers, and Prosecutors in Turkey. The declaration marks the 9th annual Day of the Endangered...

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BHRC signs onto oral statements to Special Rapporteurs on Torture and HRD

March 2, 2018
BHRC has signed onto joint oral statement to the Special Rapparteurs on Torture and Human Rights Defenders made at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statements were delivered by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on behalf of  BHRC, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), Union Internationale des Avocats...

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