Protestors Face Death Penalty
IHRC Observer Returns from landmark trial in Turkey
————————————— Islamic Human Rights Commission ————————————— 15th June 1999 PRISONERS OF FAITH CAMPAIGN FREE SHEIKH AL-JAMRI Prisoner of Faith BAHRAIN Please write to the following calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Sheikh Al-Jamri, the leader Bahrain’s Islamic opposition and all political detainees. The
Shelina Janmohammed gives a short chronicle of Palestinian aspiration and nationhood, and the atrocities committed against it. Download the report here.
A brief chronology of UN resolutions and the history of the Palestinian struggle since 1948 by Shelina Janmohamed. Download the report here.
One female protestor, Haleema Umar Yaawuri, a mother of two infants in her twenties was killed in this incident.
Concerns that five men are being used as scapegoats in Yemen
Mu’allim Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic opposition was released from prison today, over two years after his arrest. He and three others on trial with him known altogether as the Zaria Four, were arrested in September 1996