Last week, Hong Kong Watch and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) held a closed-door Webinar bringing together prominent members of the British and Hong Kong legal and academic community, with parliamentarians from the UK and the EU also in attendance, to discuss the impact of the new National Security Law in Hong Kong. The topics...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has called on the King of Bahrain to suspend or commute the death sentences of Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa in an open letter sent today. Mr Ramadan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain. Both men allege...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) welcomes the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision to adopt the Resolution on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary, jurors and assessors, and the independence of lawyers. The Resolution condemns “the increasingly frequent attacks on the independence of judges, lawyers, prosecutors and court officials, in...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today published a new high-level Briefing Paper on the responsibility of governments under international law in relation to the widely reported severe ill-treatment, repression and abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims by China. The report, “Responsibility of States under international law to Uyghurs...

Marking the 30th anniversaries of the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers and the IBA Standards for the Independence of the Legal Profession, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, together with its partner organisations – IBAHRI, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, Lawyers for Lawyers, International Commission of Jurists, and Human Rights...

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Court of Cassation with respect to Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Moosa, two men facing execution in Bahrain. Mr Ramadan and Mr Moosa were convicted of carrying out a 2014 bombing in Bahrain. Both men allege...