Subsequent to the alert of 9th February 2002, we have received many requests for a copy of the actual letter sent by the MCB to The Guardian. Our apologies for the delay in sending it out. It follows below.
It has come to IHRC’s attention that the Muslim Council of Britain, like The Board of Deputies of British Jews before them, has written to The Guardian complaining that they have given a platform to journalist Faisal Bodi to write.
The BBC website is currently running a poll on the above, following the case of the Singapore government banning hijab in state schools. Please urgently email the BBC website administrators and editors at newsonline.complaints@bbc.co.uk and politely dema
————————————————— Islamic Human Rights Commission ————————————————— 21st January 2002 UK EVENTS: Selfridges Pickets, Protests outside Israeli Embassy and other Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) events 1. There will be a demonstration on Saturday 26 January 2002. Please support this demonstration starting opposite the “Israeli” Embassy 12
The escalation of ill-treatment, torture and persecution of Afghan and other PoWs is outlined below in IHRC’s latest briefing on the treatment of PoWs in Guantanamo, Cuba. This is the latest atrocity committed by coalition powers: the horrors of the fort
Mehmet Ali Tecin and defendants in the ‘Umut’ case, sentenced. Nureddin Sirin, moved to high security isolation unit.
IHRC is about to publish a further report on the Anti-Muslim Backlash in the UK. Below are three articles printed in last Friday’s Independent newspaper regarding our previous report.
The jury selection for Imam Jamil who is facing the death penalty after being charged with 13 counts of murder and felony murder over the killing and fatal wounding of two deputies in March 2000, began yesterday. The original date for the jury selection
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