The government decision to proscribe as “terrorist” the political group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is an authoritarian and flagrantly Islamophobic act that seeks to stifle opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. By banning an organisation that the government itself has acknowledged is non-violent, British authorities are
A new report by IHRC documents the alarming level of repression by authorities in the UK, France and Germany of the freedom of their inhabitants to support Palestinian rights. Since the Israeli genocide against Gaza began in October last year, the treatment of Palestine advocates
The full report first report, ‘The Authoritarian Drift of the European Democratic State: the Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Movements’ written by Caterina Aiena,on curtailment of pro-Palestine support by UK, France and Germany, was submitted to the UN in Decemmber 2023. Download an anonymised copy here.
Arzu Merali outlines the urgent need for the Palestine solidarity movement to learn lessons from its fractured past It has been a traumatic and for some surprising week. The UK Home Secretary has labelled the peaceful and almost wholly – thus far – arrest
As part of its submission to the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, IHRC has compiled this briefing regarding some of the impacts of such laws and policies in the UK,
Background Action required Model Template Recipient contact information Background Islamophobia and Afrophobia run rampant within the Labour Party as has been well documented by the Forde Report and files leaked and released by Al-Jazeera in the Labour Files. Yet still, there is no response
This page provides the key documents, video and links in the Countering Islamophobic Narratives project (CIK) that was undertaken in 2017 – 2018. The author of research on the UK was Arzu Merali. Watch her present their findings at the European Parliament in September 2018.
IHRC has issued safety advice to the Muslim community after two Muslim worshippers were injured when a group of thugs carrying bottles and hockey sticks launched a “racially aggravated” assault outisde a mosque earlier this week. The group attacked people going into Sri Lankan Muslim
