PRESS RELEASE – NIGERIA/CORONAVIRUS: IHRC notes today’s pardon by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari of 2500 prisoners nationwide in a bid to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the pardon includes prisoners aged over 60 and those suffering
This year IHRC and other organisations are calling on people to fly a Palestinian flag in their window or on their car for the last 10 days of Ramadan to show their support for the people of Palestine.
PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to free Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis that is engulfing the world. The pair continue to be held despite the
Barrister Osama Daneshyar shares his memories of the case, which he attended as an IHRC trial observer in 1999.
PRESS RELEASE – IHRC has written to the United Nations seeking its intervention in assisting to repatriate apporximately 2000 Bahraini citizens who are being prevented from returning to their country from Iran. Reports suggest that approximately 1000 Bahrainis are stuck in Mashhad with another 1000
PRESS RELEASE – The global fight against the Coronavirus risks being undermined if US sanctions against Iran aren’t lifted. In a letter to the UN Secretary General, IHRC has called on António Guterres to bring international pressure to bear on Washington to temporarily
PRESS RELEASE: IHRC welcomes the decision by a court in Nigeria today ordering the release of the last remaining Islamic Movement members detained following a government massacre of the group’s supporters in 2015. 87 members of the movement were acquitted and discharged by the Kaduna
PRESS RELEASE: IHRC is calling on the Nigerian authorities to free the imprisoned leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, and his spouse ahead of their appearance in court this Thursday 6 Feb in a politically motivated trial. The pair face charges
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