The full report first report, ‘The Authoritarian Drift of the European Democratic State: the Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Movements’ written by Caterina Aiena,on curtailment of pro-Palestine support by UK, France and Germany, was submitted to the UN in Decemmber 2023. Download an anonymised copy here.
IHRC has again written to the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, to protest about the force’s application of double standards in its policing of pro-Palestine demonstrations in the capital. The letter points to the Met’s failure to arrest pro-Israel marchers who directed
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 watch / 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. VIDEO: WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE ARRESTED AT A DEMONSTRATION View this
On Friday 3 November 2023, The Times carried a piece that contained strange and misrepresentative claims about IHRC. These are sadly nothing new and are part of an environment of hate, currently being instrumentalised by the British government to crack down on legitimate and necessary
Civil society organisations in the UK have written to the government warning it that any attempt to ban the Palestine flag will be met with an immediate challenge in the courts. The letter, signed by 10 organisations, threatens the legal action if the government goes
Join the report’s author Caterina Aiena and the IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh in Warsaw to discuss increasing use of citizenship deprivation / stripping measures. Date: Monday 9th October 2023 Time: 16.00 CEST Venue: Plenary Room, Sofitel Warsaw Victoria building, Warsaw Registration at the door. Join
Join the IHRC’s EU team in Brussels for the launch of its latest report, looking at the increasing use of citizenship deprivation / stripping measures. Date: Brussels 03 October 2023 Time: 11.00 – 13.00 CEST Venue: Mundo B, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium Join
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