URGENT ALERT UPDATE: PRISONERS OF FAITH – TURKEY

January 12, 2002

Mehmet Ali Tecin and defendants in the ‘Umut’ case, sentenced. Nureddin Sirin, moved to high security isolation unit.

ALERT UPDATE: Report on Anti-Muslim Backlash Update

January 9, 2002

IHRC is about to publish a further report on the Anti-Muslim Backlash in the UK. Below are three articles printed in last Friday’s Independent newspaper regarding our previous report.

JURY SELECTION FOR IMAM JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN’S TRIAL HAS BEGUN

January 8, 2002

The jury selection for Imam Jamil who is facing the death penalty after being charged with 13 counts of murder and felony murder over the killing and fatal wounding of two deputies in March 2000, began yesterday. The original date for the jury selection

ALERT UPDATE: Mehmet Ali TEKIN and Nureddin SIRIN, Prisoners of Faith, Turkey

January 1, 2002

Mehmet Ali Tekin, a journalist, was sentenced to twelve and half years imprisonment for membership of an illegal organisation last month… Nureddin Sirin, another journalist, was sentenced to seventeen and a half years imprisonment in 1997 for helping to

URGENT MEDIA ALERT:’ The hate that will not die’ by Linda Grant, The Guardian 18th December 2001.

December 18, 2001

Islamic Human Rights Commission URGENT MEDIA ALERT: 18th December 2001 ‘The hate that will not die’ by Linda Grant, The Guardian 18th December 2001. This 4000 word article can be viewed at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4321814,00.html Please protest to the Guardian on the following points: 1. The article