WATCH: Know Your Rights – Police powers to stop, search, account and arrest

January 24, 2021

Watch the webinar with Massoud Shadjareh and Mudassar Arani.

What to do if you are arrested or searched under anti-terror laws, or questioned by the security services

January 22, 2021

You can download a summary of the main points in leaflet form as a PDF here, or at the end of the page. Arani Solicitors Ltd. and IHRC have prepared this brief guide for people affected by anti-terrorist laws and policies. It deals with your rights

Police powers to stop, search, account and arrest

January 19, 2021

Join IHRC for an online webinar on Sunday, 24 January.

Schedule 7 – What to do if you are stopped at the airport or other port in the UK

January 8, 2021

A quick guide to your rights if you are stopped for questioning at any UK port.

The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices

October 16, 2019

Faisal Bodi, from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, says a recent attack on his organisation by The Times newspaper is symptomatic of an Establishment that seeks to drive dissenting Muslim voices out of the public space. It’s somewhat perverse that The Times should draw on George

On The Times, Andrew Norfolk and the Paucity of Power

October 10, 2019

In reference to The Times reporting and leading comment regarding IHRC on 10 October 2019, IHRC stated: It matters little that e.g. the charity that gives its money to IHRC is in fact the charitable arm of IHRC registered under the direction and full supervision

Seen but not heard: The Commission for Countering Extremism or the Mission to Close Political Space

October 7, 2019

The second tranche of reports from CCE landed this morning. Like its previous set of documents these articles show only that the CCE’s mission to delegitimise political debate that opposes the incumbent government’s domestic and foreign policies. Aside from attacks on Muslim civil society (almost