In response to the unprecedented threat against the rights to freedom of expression and fair trials, ARTICLE 19 and the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on monitoring trials in Turkey. As part of that agreement, ARTICLE 19 and BHRC are monitoring have already monitored two hearings in the trial against...
The Bar Human Rights Committee, Law Society and IBA Human Rights Institue co-organised a UN side event at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to discuss the challenges that the Turkish legal profession has been facing since the failed coup in July 2016. The event took place on 21 June 2018 at 15:00-16:00 in Room XXV...
The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) have written jointly to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to voice concerns over Turkey’s ongoing and large-scale prosecution of judges, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders with the Turkish President when the two meet on Tuesday. The letter, which has...
Luis Guillermo Picture taken by and used with the permission of Peace Brigades International On 25 April, BHRC hosted Colombian human rights lawyer Luis Guillermo Pérez as part of his European speaking tour in which he also meet with EU institutions and representatives of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Luis Guillermo is member...
The Bar Council of England and Wales, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC), the International Association of Lawyers (UIA), the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), and the Law Society of England and Wales have sent an open letter to Turkish authorities raising concerns over the rising number of cases...
BHRC, along with its partner EuroMed Rights have published its trial observation report for the appeal case of Khaled Ali, a prominent Egyptian lawyer who was expected to run for President in the election on 26-28 March. Ali was convicted in September 2017 for violating public decency in relation to the “making of an obscene gesture”...
BHRC has sent a letter to the UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, raising concern over the detention, prosecution and treatment of Nabeel Rajab, a human rights defender in Bahrain. Mr Rajab is the president and co-founder of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. On 21 February 2018 he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, to...
BHRC has released its hearing observation report on the opening of the trial of 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, her mother Nariman Tamimi and Ahed’s cousin, Nour Tamimi.by co-Vice Chair Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh. Ahed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi are all facing charges relating to an incident on 15 December 2017, the recording of which went viral after being uploaded...
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...
BHRC and the Bar Council sent a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei calling for the release of lawyers and other persons arrested for their work defending others’ rights. The letter raised particular concern for Abdolfattah Soltani and Narges Mohammadi who have spent their legal careers advocating for the rule of law in Iran. Abdolfattah Soltani, the lawyer and co-founder with...
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