URGENT ALERT: Blair silences genuine dissidents

September 1, 1998

The British government is intending to introduce new laws to fight ‘terrorism’.

Human Rights Violations in Nigeria 1997 – 1998

September 1, 1998

An overview of the number and nature of atrocities committed by the Abacha and subsequent junta against the Muslim Brothers in Nigeria between April 1997 – September 1998. Read the report here. The Islamic Human Rights Commission has continued to research the deteriorating human rights

Blair silences genuine dissidents

August 30, 1998

The attempted introduction of so-called anti-terror legislation by the government next week, is being strongly opposed by the Islamic Human Rights Commission.

CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Nigeria – Zeenah Ibrahim and her children released

August 27, 1998

Thanks to the concerted campaigning of volunteers the world over, Zeenah Ibrahim, her six children and the other women and children arrested in April, have been released.

URGENT ALERT: Anti-Muslim Backlash in South Africa

August 27, 1998

Muslims in South Africa have become subject to a backlash after the Planet Hollywood restaurant bombing which took place on Tuesday 25 August in Cape Town.

JOURNALIST GUL ASLAN FREE!

August 25, 1998

Gul Aslan, a Turkish journalist jailed for over three years, without charge was released Friday, August 20. Aslan was one of the Prisoners of Faith visited by IHRC observers on their fact-finding trip to Turkey last year.

JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER: American justice or American terror?

August 21, 1998

IHRC comment on the US attack against Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Factory in Khartoum, Sudan.

Nigerian junta should release all political prisoners regardless of their faith

July 2, 1998

The Islamic Human Rights Commission is calling on the new Nigerian regime of General Abubakr Salamu to release Mu’allim Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic opposition, and all political prisoners from the Muslim Brotherhood.