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Police urged to resist ministers’ calls to investigate anti-Israel protest

PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick over calls from government ministers for the police to investigate university students demonstrating against the presence of Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, at a university event in London on Tuesday

EVENT NOTICE: Can Muslims and Minorities work with the Westernised Establishment?

Dates: 11 & 12 December Venue: Online ihrc.tv and YouTube and Facebook For press enquiries and to organise interviews please email media[AT]ihrc.org or call / message +447958607475. The annual Islamophobia conference takes place across 11 and 12 December 2021.  Co-organised by Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) and the Decolonial

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Zakzakys fight for return of passports

PRESS RELEASE – Nigerian security forces will answer in the Federal High Court tomorrow why they are not returning the passports of the recently freed leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallimah Zeenah. Since the pair were released

Abused Israeli refusenik pleads to stay in Britain

PRESS RELEASE – The extensive violence faced by Israeli conscientious objectors will come under the spotlight today in a British court when a Jewish asylum seeker resumes his legal battle in a case that could have far-reaching repercussions for those seeking to flee the Zionist

Bristol University could lose millions over sacking of professor

PRESS RELEASE – Civil society organisations, scholars and activists from Malaysia have written to Bristol University threatening to lobby the government to stop sending students there unless it reinstates a professor sacked for criticising Israel and Zionism. Prof Miller, who was professor of political sociology

Bristol University faces boycott over sacking of academic

PRESS RELEASE – Civil society organisations and activists in the UK and overseas are threatening to organise a mass boycott of Bristol University unless it reverses its dismissal of a professor for his outspokenly critical stance on Israel. In a letter sent to the university

IHRC condemns bloody police attack on Nigeria rally

PRESS RELEASE: IHRC condemns the unprovoked and wanton attack yesterday by police against a Shia religious procession in Nigeria Eight people are now confirmed dead and many more injured after the attack by police on the peaceful procession in the capital, Abuja. Police opened fire

Nigerian police shoot at Islamic commemoration, fatalities reported

PRESS RELEASE: At least two people have been reported killed with many more injured in the Nigerian capital Abuja after police opened fire with live ammunition at a peaceful procession of Shia Muslims marking the 40th day anniversary of Ashura. Tens of thousands of people