USA Tortures Prisoners Nazi Style

January 20, 2002

IHRC has written to the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw MP, demanding that Britain disengage from the anti-human rights stance and processes taken by the USA.

URGENT ALERT: US Treats POWS Inhumanely

January 14, 2002

The escalation of ill-treatment, torture and persecution of Afghan and other PoWs is outlined below in IHRC’s latest briefing on the treatment of PoWs in Guantanamo, Cuba. This is the latest atrocity committed by coalition powers: the horrors of the fort

ALERT UPDATE: Report on Anti-Muslim Backlash Update

January 9, 2002

IHRC is about to publish a further report on the Anti-Muslim Backlash in the UK. Below are three articles printed in last Friday’s Independent newspaper regarding our previous report.

Emergency Legislation Violates Human Rights Standards

January 1, 2002

Home Secretary David Blunkett is taking steps to introduce emergency legislation as a result of the atrocities of September 11. The Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill includes measures to detain terrorist suspects indefinitely without trial.

Emergency Legislation Violates Human Rights Standards, Update number 2

November 26, 2001

IHRC has a number of further concerns regarding the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill currently being pushed through parliament in an unprecedented attempt to curtail civil liberties in the UK.