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UK-born baby of parents with right to remain given six-month tourist stamp

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By Sarah Marsh

Father Charles Kriel and mother Katharina Viken were returning to UK from holiday in Florida

A baby born in the UK to two parents who have indefinite leave to remain in Britain has been denied the right to live in the country in what a human rights lawyer has described as a potentially unlawful move.

Dr Charles Kriel, a US national and special adviser to a parliamentary select committee, said he was returning to the UK from a holiday in Florida with his fiancee, Katharina Viken, and their baby daughter was denied entry. The child was eventually given a six-month tourist stamp …read more

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Hundreds of Bahrainis like me are being made stateless – and the UK is complicit | Sayed Alwadaei

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By Sayed Alwadaei

While Bahrain imprisons and harasses its critics with impunity, Britain continues to be one of its closest allies

This week, a court in my home country, Bahrain, reached a verdict in one of the largest mass trials in the nation’s history. Jail terms were handed to 139 people, including 69 life sentences, ostensibly for terrorism-related offences. All but one were stripped of their citizenship.

In 2011, a huge number of Bahrain’s citizens took to the streets to demand democratic change from the al-Khalifa family, who have ruled the country for some 200 years. Since then, it has ramped …read more

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End ‘pain-inducing’ restraints on child offenders, MPs urge

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By Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent

Human rights committee condemns punishments such as isolation that cause distress

Subjecting children to “pain-inducing restraints” in young offender institutions and solitary confinement for more than 22 hours a day should be made illegal, a report by MPs has urged.

The recommendations are contained in an investigation by parliament’s joint committee on human rights into the conditions in which about 2,500 young people are serving custodial sentences or detained in mental health units and secure children’s homes.

Related: Scandal-hit children’s prison still restraining inmates unlawfully – report

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Roger Waters is too simplistic on Israel | Letters

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By Letters

Readers share their views on the musician’s call for other artists to stay away from Israel over its human rights record

Roger Waters’ mother imploring her son to “decide for yourself” and execute the “right thing to do” was no doubt in reference to the juvenile politics of the playground (If you believe in human rights, Madonna, don’t play Tel Aviv, 17 April). Unfortunately, these simple values can not be transposed to the labyrinthine issues of the Middle East in general and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular.

Sadly “bad stuff” occurs in all conflicts, which are not as clearcut as …read more

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Attorney General Decision Seeks to Jail Refugees Indefinitely

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By DuffyC

New York City—In response to Attorney General Barr’s decision attempting to strip refugees of bond hearings, thereby holding them in detention indefinitely, Human Rights First’s Eleanor Acer issued the following statement:

This move is clearly another inhumane attempt by the Trump Administration to punish families and others seeking refuge through mass incarceration and due process cuts. With the stroke of his pen, the attorney general is trampling on both the Constitution and the rights of refugees.

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Human Rights First Congratulates Radhya al-Mutawakel, Chair of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, on Her Selection as One of the TIME 100

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By plummerc

Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today congratulated Radhya al-Mutawakel, last year’s winner of the organization’s Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty, on her selection as one of TIME Magazine’s 2019 most influential people in the world.

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Hearing postponed for ‘private reasons’ in trial of 11 Saudi women

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By Reuters

Defendants, several of whom campaigned for right to drive, given no new date for hearing

A court in Saudi Arabia has postponed a fourth hearing in the trial of several women’s rights activists, a case that has intensified western criticism of Riyadh following the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A court official informed some of the women’s relatives that the session would not take place, citing the judge’s “private reasons”, and could not provide a new date. The public prosecutor said last May that some of the women had been arrested on suspicion of harming Saudi interests and offering support to …read more

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If you believe in human rights, Madonna, don’t play Tel Aviv | Roger Waters

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By Roger Waters

Until the Israeli government recognises the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, artists should stay away

Madonna’s acceptance of an invitation to perform in Tel Aviv at the Eurovision song contest finals in May raises, yet again, fundamentally important ethical and political questions for each and every one of us to contemplate.

In Paris in 1948 the then fledgling United Nations drafted and subsequently adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrined in international law that all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of their ethnicity or nationality or religion, have certain basic human rights, including but not …read more

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