PRESS RELEASE: IHRC has written to the United Nations demanding that it holds Washington accountable for its extra-judicial execution of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a drone stike in Iraq on 3 January. Calling the action “a dangerous act of international piracy”, the letter stresses
[First published 10 January 2019, edited and updated 12 January 2020] 11 January marks the anniversary of the confinement of the first detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility in the US. The internment camp was established by President George W. Bush shortly after
PRESS RELEASE The International Criminal Court in The Hague is continuing to investigate the massacre of over 1000 civilians by Nigerian armed forces in the city of Zaria in 2005. In its most recent update issued shortly before the new year the Prosecutor of the
PRESS RELEASE [First issued 4 December 2019]The sixth annual IHRC / SACC Islamophobia Conference taking place a week on Saturday 14 December 2019 will discuss the different ways in which civil society space has shrunk in Britain and beyond, with a particular focus on Muslim
PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA IHRC has written to the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights urging her to intervene in the case of the beleaguered leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah al-Zakzaky. The plea comes on
PRESS RELEASE IHRC condemns the decision of the Kaduna state high court ordering the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife to be transferred from the custody of the internal security services (DSS) to a prison in the state.
We’re in the middle of another busy and exciting period at IHRC. Here is a selection of recent activities and what’s coming soon. As ever please remember us in your prayers and consider giving us a donation using any of the methods listed on our
PRESS RELEASE IHRC views with astonishment today’s call by one of Britain’s most influential rabbis for Jews to effectively abandon the Labour Party in next month’s upcoming general election on account of the alleged scale of anti-Semitism within the party. In condemning Labour as trenchantly
