PRESS RELEASE: IHRC concerned regarding anti-terrorist law review findings

December 18, 2003

Neither report nor Home Office response satisfactory

Media Monitoring UK:, BBC2 “Terror Tourists”, 9 p.m., 7th December 2003

December 8, 2003

This programme was a wholly inaccurate and biased reflection of the violence in Palestine today.

PRESS RELEASE: UK Rights group condemns police and media hype over alleged terrorism arrests

November 28, 2003

IHRC calls on UK police services and the media to stop the deadly spiral of demonisation caused by current arrests over alleged terrorism offences.

CAMPAIGN UPDATE: International Helsinki Federation Report on Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights, and further resources

July 3, 2003

Read the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s comments on the UK situation in ‘Anti-Terrorism Measures, Security and Human Rights: Developments in Europe, Central Asia and North America in the Aftermath of September 11’.

PRESS RELEASE: UK – Mossad given free hand, civil liberties destroyed

May 7, 2003

IHRC is deeply alarmed at the recent announcement that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, is to expand its operations against the Muslim community in the UK.

Language, Media and the Public Mind – A Case Study of Reporting of the ‘Ricin’ Incident

April 9, 2003

An analysis of how overt and covert racist and Islamophobic stereotyping in the media works, with specific reference to the ‘ricin incident’ in the UK earlier this year.

Derogation from A Non-Derogable Right? Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Immigration and the British Government

March 2, 2003

In an increasingly globalised world, where law is seen as the principal carrier of the few values still shared by diverse nations, it is ironic that the UK Government is undermining its commitment…