Today’s announcement by Michael Gove that the government is widening the definition of extremism to catch mostly mainstream Muslim organisations is the latest in a series of Islamophobic measures seeking to exclude Muslims from public life. The blackballing of Muslim groups as a threat to
IHRC welcomes the statement of the United Nations calling on states to respect and enable the rights of everyone to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression. The statement is a direct response to the alarming level of repression by many state authorities of the
IHRC wrote to the Charity Commission on 19 January 2024 regarding fundraising for the Israeli Defense Forces being facilitated by a UK based charity, UK Toremet (charity registration number 1140972). The text of the letter is pasted below. We are compelled to write to you
The government decision to proscribe as “terrorist” the political group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is an authoritarian and flagrantly Islamophobic act that seeks to stifle opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. By banning an organisation that the government itself has acknowledged is non-violent, British authorities are
A new report by IHRC documents the alarming level of repression by authorities in the UK, France and Germany of the freedom of their inhabitants to support Palestinian rights. Since the Israeli genocide against Gaza began in October last year, the treatment of Palestine advocates
Executive Summary of communication to UN over curtailment of pro-Palestine support by UK, France and Germany The full report was submitted to the UN in December 2023. Information concerning the Communication Type of Communication: Joint Communication Addresses:Â Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 49/10, 52/9,
Arzu Merali outlines the urgent need for the Palestine solidarity movement to learn lessons from its fractured past It has been a traumatic and for some surprising week. The UK Home Secretary has labelled the peaceful and almost wholly – thus far – arrest
Please read through the following to be up-to-date on what powers can and can’t be used against protestors at demonstration in the UK. Information on this page is from Green & Black Cross SOLICITORS SPECIALISING IN HUMAN RIGHTS If you are arrested at a protest,
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