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What’s New at www.ihrc.org.uk?

In this ‘What’s New’ a series of Alerts outlining recent human rights issues in Slovakia, Bahrain and Egypt. Press Releases on the ruling on the “freedom of thought” issue and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks. World Chechnya Day this weekend.

Forwarded Alert: World Chechnya Day

In February 1944 Stalin ordered the immediate deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush peoples to the steppes of Central Asia resulting in the deaths of up to half of the population…