11 August 2000 IHRC has received a number of complaints regarding the advice given by officers at the UK Passport Agency regarding the wearing of hijab in passport photographs. Several sisters were told that hijab was not acceptable. Islamic Human Rights Commission United Kingdom 11th
Selam weekly is an Istanbul based newspaper. Its journalists have been regularly persecuted for their outspoken criticism of the government and their Islamic beliefs.
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 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
Action: Protest letters to leader of Conservative Party, William Hague MP
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.
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.
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
