PRESS RELEASE: UK – Response to decision to scrap Stop and Search powers

July 8, 2010

IHRC asks for a review of the anti-terror laws and their implementation.

PRESS RELEASE: UK / USA / ECtHR – Response to decision to halt extradition of Babar Ahmed and other detained Britons to the USA

July 8, 2010

“The new British government has a chance to live up to its promise to review the current extradition regime in the UK.”

Update Alert: USA – Seyed Mousavi wins court appeal

June 3, 2010

The Islamic Human Rights Commission has learned that Seyed Mahmood Mousavi has won his most recent court appeal.

SAVE SHAKER AAMER DEMONSTRATION

May 24, 2010

The next SSAC DEMONSTRATION will take place on Tuesday, 25th May. Do join us.

Everlasting Love? Muslims and Citizenship in the UK and the Decline of Minority Rights

April 6, 2010

With a general election looming in the UK, Arzu Merali overviews the findings of the IHRC research project British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government (BMEG), and asks where the ideal of effective citizenship has gone?

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UN rights boss urges Egypt to stop shooting migrants

March 2, 2010

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations’ human rights chief accused Egypt on Tuesday of shooting unarmed African migrants trying to enter Israel via the Sinai Desert and said 60 of them had been killed since July 2007.