URGENT ALERT: BAHRAIN – Detained Human Rights Activists To Appear in Court on Monday
March 14, 2008
Detained human rights activists in Bahrian to appear in court on 17 March 2008.
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Forwarded Alert: Farid Hilali Suffering in Spain 10th March 2008
March 13, 2008
After extradition, Farid Hilali is being held in solitary confinement, without access to his legal papers required to prepare his defence.
What’s New at www.ihrc.org.uk?
March 13, 2008
In this ‘What’s New’ a series of Alerts outlining recent human rights issues in Spain, Nigeria and Egypt. Press Releases on issues relating to Trinidad and Tobago and Bahrain as well as a briefing on the young Uyghur Women forced into labour.
The Free Tibet Society of London Metropolitan University, presents: ECHOES OF PRISON
March 13, 2008
A talk by six Tibetan nuns, who between them have spent 71 years in Drapchi Prison, as political prisoners and are in the UK to pay tribute to their fellow prisoners who died as a result of inhuman treatment inprisons.
Alert Update: Nigeria – 16 of the 127 Detainees Have Been Released in Sokoto
March 12, 2008
16 of the 127 detained members of Shia group in Sokoto, held for past six months, have been granted bail by Federal High Court in Sokoto.
A Counter-narrative: Islam and the first Europe
March 12, 2008
Professor David Lewis explains how a Europe which in the 8th century defined itself in opposition to Islam made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, persecutory religious intolerance, cultural particularism, and perpetual war.
PRESS RELEASE: UK – Event: Human Rights and Israel at 60: A look at the conflicting paths of two contemporaneous projects, 4th May 2008, UK
March 12, 2008
An opportunity to discuss Israel’s 60 year history of human rights abuses
PRESS RELEASE: China – Transfer of Uyghur Women – Briefing On-Line Now
March 11, 2008
This briefing looks at government programme in China to transfer young women from rural regions of western China to urban areas in the east.
