His arrest came the day after the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, appealed for critics of the government to return to the country, promising them freedom of speech and action.
The Bosnian Central Parliament is to discuss a new law proposed by the Bosnian Serb Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) on 1st September 2010 to ban the face veil for which Muslim women have held a protest outside the Central Parliament in Sarajevo.
Join the Justice for Aafia Coalition (JFAC) for a rally outside the US embassy to protest 7 years of detention and abuse, and the impending threat of a life sentence in prison.
The Annual Al-Quds Day Demonstration and Rally is confirmed to take place in London on Saturday 4th September 2010.
The IHRC’s annual newsletter is now available, please help us to distribute it.
Khairat Al-Shater, who has served a total number of 10 years in different prisons in Egypt, was excluded from the presidential pardon.
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