Today’s announcement by Michael Gove that the government is widening the definition of extremism to catch mostly mainstream Muslim organisations is the latest in a series of Islamophobic measures seeking to exclude Muslims from public life. The blackballing of Muslim groups as a threat to
The government’s announcement of a £117m funding package for mosque security is a bribe which only serves to highlight the disdain with which Muslims are treated. Instead of genuinely consulting the Muslim community and engaging with it to plan and deliver its own security as
IHRC welcomes the statement of the United Nations calling on states to respect and enable the rights of everyone to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression. The statement is a direct response to the alarming level of repression by many state authorities of the
IHRC wrote to the Charity Commission on 19 January 2024 regarding fundraising for the Israeli Defense Forces being facilitated by a UK based charity, UK Toremet (charity registration number 1140972). The text of the letter is pasted below. We are compelled to write to you
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’,on curtailment of pro-Palestine support by UK, France and Germany, was submitted to the UN in December 2023. Download an anonymised copy here. Read the executive summary
IHRC has again written to the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, to protest about the force’s application of double standards in its policing of pro-Palestine demonstrations in the capital. The letter points to the Met’s failure to arrest pro-Israel marchers who directed
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