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 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,...
On BBC World, BHRC co-Vice Char Schona Jolly QC raised serious concern for the situation in Rakhine State, Myanmar and calling for the international community to put pressure on Myanmar to end the violence and to bring the perpetrators to justice. In the interview, Schona laid out the difficulty in proving the intent to commit genocide...
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...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has welcomed the news that Ibrahim Halawa has been released from prison in Egypt and has returned to his family in Ireland after being acquitted of all charges against him, following over four years in detention in Cairo. Mr. Halawa was arrested as a 17-year-old child...
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has submitted an official petition for clemency to the Bahraini Government on behalf of Mohamed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa, two men facing imminent execution in Bahrain. Mr Ramadhan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain; both men insist that...
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