In this Month’s ‘What’s New’, an Alert requesting urgent action for Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed and a demonstration for Binyam on 24 July 2008. We also have an alert on the Sunday Times’s apology on the IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh.
Binyam Mohamed is facing a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay and the death penalty if convicted. Demo opp Downing St on 24 July 2008, 6-8 pm
Radovan Karadzic, war criminal leader of the self proclaimed ‘Republika Srpska’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been arrested in Serbia after thirteen years on the run.
Campaigns in Bahrain detailing human rights violations taking place in the country.
Award winning human rights lawyer survived an armed attack on 30 June 2008 in Srinagar.
Mat Sah still languishes in prison, six years after his arrest under the Internal Security Act.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the six-year prison sentence on freelance journalist Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani.
IHRC remembers Srebrenica massacre on 13 year anniversary, welcomes current civil action against the Dutch State by relatives of victims.
