NewsStatements and LettersJanuary 19, 2015
BHRC calls on British Government to increase pressure on Saudi Arabia following public flogging of blogger Raif Badawi
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) has written to the UK Foreign Secretary to ask the British Government to do much more to pressure the Saudi authorities to end the flogging and imprisonment of blogger, Raif Badawi. Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC), Kirsty Brimelow QC said: “These floggings are torture and place Saudi...