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Islamic Human Rights Commission
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PRESS RELEASE

REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN Zanzibar AND Mauritius Launched today.

30th May 2001

IHRC will be launching its latest two reports:

‘Suppressing Dissent: The Crackdown on Muslims in Zanzibar’

‘Equal in the Eyes of Law: Police Brutality and the Abuse of Human Rights in Mauritius’

tonight at 6 p.m. at 140 Maida Vale, London, W9

If you would like to attend or require further information, press releases, report summaries or copies of reports please call us on (+44) 20 8902 0888 or (+44) 958 522 196 or e-mail us on info@ihrc.org

The agenda of the programme follows:

Agenda

6:00 pm Registration & Refreshments

6:25 pm Recitation & Translation of the Qur’an

6:40 pm Introduction by Chair of Programme

6:45 pm Overview of IHRC work

6:50 pm Suppressing Dissent in Zanzibar

7:00 pm Police Brutality in Mauritius

7:10 pm Questions

7:30 pm Close of Programme