The Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee have written to the Polish President and Prime Minister, and Marshals of the...
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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...
BHRC publishes full trial observations of the “Gezi Park” trial as the ECtHR confirms Osman Kavala must be immediately released
BHRC has published its observations in full of the “Gezi Park” trial of sixteen leading civil society individuals in Turkey, including...
Hungary: State Secretary Response to BHRC and Bar Council letter calling on Prime Minister Orbán to reverse disproportionate emergency powers legislation
On 1 April 2020, BHRC and the Bar Council wrote to the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, expressing grave...