The Bar Human Rights Commitee of England and Wales (BHRC) has today joined over 40 bar associations and human rights...
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TURKEY: Ahmet Altan marks 1500 days in detention
Today, 9 November 2020, marks 1500 days in detention of one of Turkey’s most well-known writers and novellists. In November...
BHRC and the Bar Council write to Polish authorities ahead of rescheduled hearing to waive immunity of Judge Tuleya
The Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee have written to the Polish President and Prime Minister, and Marshals of the...
BHRC publishes the “Gezi Park” trial observation report in Turkish
BHRC has published the Turkish version of its trial observation report of the “Gezi Park” trial of sixteen leading civil society...
EVENT: People, Power & Politics: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights in Belarus – Thursday 3 September 2020
For 26 years Alexandr Lukashenko has been widely referred to as “the last dictator of Europe”. Belarus, under Lukashenko’s tenure,...
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,...
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 Council and BHRC write to Polish authorities ahead of hearing to waive immunity of Judge Tuleya
The Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee have written to the Polish President and Prime Minister, and Marshals of the...
Turkey: Discontinue criminal investigations against Ankara and Diyarbakir Bar Associations
The Bar Human Rights Committee has joined a coalition of ten legal organisations in a joint letter to the President...