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Islamic Human Rights Commission
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18th January 2007
What’s new at www.ihrc.org.uk?
This month there is a launch of an IHRC BMEG report on the media, three UN reports to download, two fresh campaign packs and IHRC’s response to the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo bay.
Reports
Press Releases
Events
Alerts
Campaigns
Articles
Reports
MONITORING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: Racism – Second session of the Human Rights Council
17 January 2007
A summary of the activity of the Human Rights Council during its second session, (18 September – 6 October and 27 – 29 November 2006).
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2416
MONITORING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: Defamation of Religions – Second session of the Human Rights Council
17 January 2007
A summary of the activity of the Human Rights Council during its second session, (18 September – 6 October and 27 – 29 November 2006). https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2417
MONITORING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: Minorities – Second session of the Human Rights Council
17 January 2007
A summary of the activity of the Human Rights Council during its second session, (18 September – 6 October and 27 – 29 November 2006). https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2418
Presss Releases
PRESS RELEASE: Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches: Undercover Mosque’ another example of anti-Muslim hostility as discussed in forthcoming IHRC report
15 January 2007
‘The British Media and Muslim Representation: The Ideology of Demonisation’ publication launch, London, UK, 26 January 2007
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2414
IHRC Statement on 5th Anniversary of Guantanamo Bay
11 January 2007
On the 5th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay, the Islamic Human Rights Commission calls for the closure of the prison facility.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2412
Events
UK Event Notice: Launch of IHRC Report on the Media ‘The British Media and Muslim Representation: The Ideology of Demonisation’, 26 January, London
26 January 2007
A report on Muslims’ expectations of the media, including analyses of film, TV news, and literature will be launched on 26 January 2007.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2420
Alerts
Alert Update: Yemeni Prisoner Ali Nader Dies at the Hands of Local Police
15 January 2007
Prisoner Ali Amen Nader, who was captured in June 2006 by the Yemeni authorities for being the follower of a Shia group, has been killed.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2415
Action Alert: Israel using British Airspace in Gibraltar to Prepare for Nuclear Strike on Iran
08 January 2007
The Sunday Times has reported that Isreal is preparating for an air attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2391
Action Alert: Crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood Members in Egypt
08 January 2007
IHRC urges campaigners to contact their local Egyptian embassy and protest against the crackdown on members of the Muslim Brotherhood
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2392
Action Alert: Muslim cleric faces trial for ‘extremism’ in Russia
24 December 2006
IHRC calls on all campaigners to contact the Foreign Office or Minsitry of Foreign Affairs in their country and the Russian Embassy to urge for the immediate release of Imam Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, imam of Pyatigorsk mosque (Stavropol Territory).
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2364
Campaigns
Prisoner of Faith Pack: Sami Muhyideen Al Hajj
22 December 2006
Sami Muhyideen was captured for the US on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in December 2001.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2363
The Morocco 12
21 December 2006
Campaign pack for twelve Moroccan students imprisoned for 15 years for being part of the JSM, a non-violent Islamic organisation.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2351
Articles
29 Muslim Brotherhood Members arrested, Egypt
08 January 2007
The state security forces arrested, on Tuesday at dawn January, 2. 2007, 29 Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the governorates of Sharqiya, Gharbiya and Daqahliya
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2388
Five Years of Infamy: Close Guantanamo!
23 December 2006
On January 11, 2002, the first detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the prison in the US Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba.
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=2423
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and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of)
those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people
are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee
a helper.”
Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75
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