The Bar Council of England and Wales (“The Bar Council”) and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales...
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BAHRAIN: BHRC raises concerns of judicial harassment of lawyers and human rights defenders in letter to King
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has raised concerns regarding the prosecution and judicial harassment of...
BELARUS: Brutal Post-Election Crackdown on Peaceful Protestors Must End
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) and Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (“LRWC”) condemn the mass arrests,...
INDIA – BHRC deeply concerned by Indian Supreme Court interference with legitimate criticism
On Friday 14th August senior human rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan was convicted of criminal contempt of court by the Supreme...
WATCH: A Way Forward? Finding Justice for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China
On Wednesday 22 July, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC), the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights...
Statement regarding Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal – Turkish lawyers on hunger strike
The undersigned organisations have been following recent developments in the cases of human rights lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal,...
Bar Human Rights Committee and Hong Kong Watch hold private session with British and Hong Kong lawyers to discuss shared concerns over the National Security Law
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...
BHRC urges the King of Bahrain to halt executions of two men convicted on basis of confession allegedly extracted under torture
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (“BHRC”) has called on the King of Bahrain to suspend or...
UNHRC Resolution on the Independence of Lawyers acknowledges the Joint Call for Action signed by BHRC
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) welcomes the UN Human Rights Committee’s decision to adopt the...
BHRC publishes new report outlining the responsibility of States under international law to Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, China
The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today published a new high-level Briefing Paper on the...