PRESS RELEASE: UK – IHRC welcomes ECHR verdict declaring section 44 Stop and Search powers illegal
January 12, 2010
“We remind all that a secure and just society cannot be built on unjust laws.”
Stop & Search
Stop and search powers illegal, European court rules
January 12, 2010
Judges in Strasbourg say UK powers under Terrorism Act 2000 violate convention on human rights.
PRESS RELEASE: UK – IHRC Welcomes the decision to downgrade the terror alert level
July 20, 2009
“IHRC welcomes this decision and calls for a full review of anti-terror laws that would revive the civil liberties for all and cease creating suspect communities under the pretext of security”
PRESS RELEASE: UK – IHRC expresses concern over time limit on innocent people’s DNA data
May 7, 2009
IHRC is deeply concerned at police plans to keep the DNA data of people cleared of offences and those never charged.
PRESS RELEASE: UK – Police stop 180,000 people under Section 44 but only 255 arrested.
February 20, 2009
Islamic Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned with the recently released statistics regarding stops and searches under s44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. It is clear that there is significant misuse of powers granted to the Police under the Act.
PRESS RELEASE: UK – Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Makes an Oral Statement at Human Rights Council, United Nations Regarding Pre-Trial Detention in Britain
June 11, 2008
IHRC has made an oral intervention at the Human Rights Council UN in Geneva on the extension of pre-trial detention from 28 days to 42 days.
Oral Statement on Britain
June 10, 2008
We believe that secure society cannot be built on compromising on due process on human rights and civil rights.
Section 44: Causes of Concern
May 31, 2008
Submission by the Islamic Human Rights Commission to the Home Office in response to the consultation document ‘Section 44’.
