Bahrain: Open Letter to UN Special Rapporteur on situation of HR defenders

August 20, 2010

A week after the arrest of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Haq Movement in Bahrain, and in view of the subsequent crackdown of protests against the arrest in the country, the Islamic Human Rights Commission has appealed to Mrs. Margaret Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, to take up the case. The full text of the open letter is given below.

PRESS RELEASE: Bahrain – IHRC asks UN Special Rappateur to take up case of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace

August 20, 2010

IHRC has appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to take up the case of Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace, arrested in Bahrain after speaking at House of Lords and meeting with Amnesty International.

URGENT ALERT: Bahrain – Dr Al-Singace, Human Rights activist arrested on return to Bahrain

August 18, 2010

His arrest came the day after the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, appealed for critics of the government to return to the country, promising them freedom of speech and action.

ACTION ALERT: Bosnia – Bosnian Parliament is to ban the face veil

August 17, 2010

The Bosnian Central Parliament is to discuss a new law proposed by the Bosnian Serb Party of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) on 1st September 2010 to ban the face veil for which Muslim women have held a protest outside the Central Parliament in Sarajevo.