PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA/CORONAVIRUS: IHRC notes today’s pardon by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari of 2500 prisoners nationwide in a bid to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the pardon includes prisoners aged over 60 and those suffering
PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to free Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis that is engulfing the world. The pair continue to be held despite the
Dear President, I am writing to urge your intervention in the case of Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis that is engulfing the world. As you will no doubt recall we have written to you and
PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the United Nations seeking its intervention in assisting to repatriate apporximately 2000 Bahraini citizens who are being prevented from returning to their country from Iran. Reports suggest that approximately 1000 Bahrainis are stuck in Mashhad with another 1000
Islamic Human Rights CommissionPO Box 598, Wembley, London, United Kingdom, HA9 7XHTel: (+44) 20 8904 4222E-mail: info@ihrc.org Web: www.ihrc.org The Islamic Human Rights Commission is an NGO inSpecial Consultative Status with the Economic andSocial Council of the United Nations.H.E. António GuterresSecretary-GeneralUnited Nations Secretariat BuildingNew YorkNY
PRESS RELEASE – The global fight against the Coronavirus risks being undermined if US sanctions against Iran aren’t lifted. In a letter to the UN Secretary General, IHRC has called on António Guterres to bring international pressure to bear on Washington to temporarily
Islamic Human Rights CommissionPO Box 598, Wembley, London, United Kingdom, HA9 7XHTel: (+44) 20 8904 4222E-mail: info@ihrc.org Web: www.ihrc.org H.E. António GuterresSecretary-GeneralUnited Nations Secretariat BuildingNew YorkNY 10017, USA27 February 2020Dear Secretary-General,RE: Sanctions against IranI am writing to you as a matter of urgency to
PRESS RELEASE: IHRC welcomes the decision by a court in Nigeria today ordering the release of the last remaining Islamic Movement members detained following a government massacre of the group’s supporters in 2015. 87 members of the movement were acquitted and discharged by the Kaduna
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