On the 16th World Day Against the Death Penalty, BHRC has issued a statement raising awareness about conditions of confinement in...
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BHRC joins international call for Nobel Peace Prize to Human Rights Defenders
The Bar Human Rights Committee has joined over 200 organisations around the world in signing an open letter endorsing the...
BHRC sends joint submission to Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers regarding the situation of lawyers in Turkey
The Bar Human Rights Committee alongside the Law Society of England and Wales and the International Bar Association Human Rights...
BHRC condemns mass trial and sentencing of 759 individuals in Egypt: 75 receiving the death penalty, 45 life sentences and 5-10 year sentences for remaining
Following a mass trial of 759 individuals, on 8 September 2018, the Cairo Criminal Court from a courthouse attached to...
BHRC attends the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference
Bar Human Rights Committee Chair Kirsty Brimelow QC, Membership Secretary Grainne Mellon and Executive Officer Amanda June Chadwick attended the...
BHRC submissions to Parliament published on FCO inquiries
BHRC submissions to the Foreign Affairs Committee on two inquiries into the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)...
On the anniversary of the Chinese 709 Crackdown, BHRC calls for the release of detained human rights lawyers
BHRC has issued a statement raising concern for the continued detention of human rights lawyers on the third anniversary of...
BHRC to attend Kuwait Court of Cassation to continue monitoring ‘entry to Parliament’ mass trial
BHRC has issued the following statement regarding the ongoing trial observation in Kuwait: The Trial The Bar Human Rights Committee of England...
BHRC issues interim report in the trial of Kuwaiti Parliamentarians
BHRC has issued an interim report regarding the case of 70 Kuwaiti defendants convicted of public order offences following protests at...
BHRC raises concern for fair trial rights in Turkey after latest trial observation
BHRC has published its interim trial observation report on the Zaman trial, in which 10 journalists and one lawyer are being tried...