A Call from Selam Weekly.
August 2, 2000
Selam weekly is an Istanbul based newspaper. Its journalists have been regularly persecuted for their outspoken criticism of the government and their Islamic beliefs.
Campaigns
URGENT ALERT: PHILIPPINES: Protest against summary executions of Esmael Omar and Akmad Samid
June 16, 2000
June 8, 2000, at about 5:30 pm, two male Muslims were accosted in the
street by 10 policemen of the Manila Western Police District in one of the the capital’s busiest districts, Quiapo.
URGENT ALERT: AZERBAIJAN: DENIAL of Muslimah with Hijab Photograph in Passport applications.
June 5, 2000
URGENT ALERT: AZERBAIJAN For immediate release: 5th June 2000 DENIAL of Muslimah with Hijab Photograph in Passport applications. Background The authorities of the Passport Issue Department of the Ministry of Internal affairs of Azerbaijan have started denying the usage of photos of sisters with Hijab
UK Conservative Party Backs Russian Genocide in Chechnya
January 6, 2000
Action: Protest letters to leader of Conservative Party, William Hague MP
PRESS RELEASE: ‘From the Heart of Palestine’ Full text of essay at centre of child rights violations
October 18, 1999
IHRC has in its possession a copy of the full text of the essay by Layla Cassim, the 14 year old South African student who was subjected to a spate of human rights abuses by her college.
PRESS RELEASE: Innocent until Proven Muslim
August 9, 1999
Today’s guilty verdict on the eight British Muslims in Yemen had proven how the concept above is applicable in the new modern Islamophobic world.
Freedom is my Daughter’s Name
July 30, 1999
Hijab bans, torture and imprisonment without charge in the late 1990s in Turkey. This article was originally written in 1997, when a soft coup had removed the democratically elected government. Whilst some form of democracy has returned to Turkey, women are still barred from university and public positions if they wear the hijab. Gul Aslan, mentioned in this article, was released in 1999 after an IHRC campaign for her release.Â
Report of IHRC Observer into the Trial of Huda Kaya and the Malatya 75
July 1, 1999
Osama Daneshyar’s 1999 report into the trial of Huda Kaya and the Malatya 75, 51 of whom faced the death penalty for participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women suspended from university for wearing hijab.
