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NewsJanuary 19, 2018

BHRC stands in solidarity with Russian Human Rights Group after arrest of director and arson attack

Russia’s leading human rights organisation, Memorial, suffers an arson attack on its Ingushetia office just one week after the arrest of its Chechnya director. In the early morning hours of 17 January, masked arsonists destroyed the Ingushetia office of Russia’s leading human rights organisation, Memorial. The Ingushetia office opened in 2000 as people fled Chechnya to escape the...

NewsDecember 19, 2017

BHRC co-Vice Chair tells BBC: Rohingya crisis “bears all the hallmarks of genocide”

On BBC World, BHRC co-Vice Char Schona Jolly QC raised serious concern for the situation in Rakhine State, Myanmar and calling for the international community to put pressure on Myanmar to end the violence and to bring the perpetrators to justice. In the interview, Schona laid out the difficulty in proving the intent to commit genocide...

NewsOctober 26, 2017

BHRC welcomes the release of Ibrahim Halawa

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales has welcomed the news that Ibrahim Halawa has been released from prison in Egypt and has returned to his family in Ireland after being acquitted of all charges against him, following over four years in detention in Cairo. Mr. Halawa was arrested as a 17-year-old child...

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