In this issue
In this issue
- Leading artists join fight to save Human Rights Act
- WCC reiterates complaints to Israeli authorities
- Bahrain opposition leader jailed over peaceful speeches
- Added days of imprisonment lock in ‘vicious cycle of punishment’
- UN agency warns 4.6 million face food insecurity in Burundi
- Foreign Secretary fails to request kidnapped Briton’s release
- Christians found guilty over climate protest
- Yearly Meeting focuses on living out Quaker faith in the world
Thursday 2 June 2016
31 May 2016
Leading artists join fight to save Human Rights Act
Ten of the biggest names in British art are the latest voices to join the growing chorus condemning government plans to repeal the Human Rights Act.
1 Jun 2016
WCC reiterates complaints to Israeli authorities
The World Council of Churches continues to reiterate complaints about the interrogation and treatment of its staff and professional colleagues at Ben Gurion International Airport on 29 April-2 May 2016
31 May 2016
Bahrain opposition leader jailed over peaceful speeches
In a shocking attack on the right to freedom of expression Bahrain’s authorities yesterday upheld the conviction of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and increased his prison sentence from four to nine years for giving speeches in which he criticised the government, says Amnesty International.
1 Jun 2016
Added days of imprisonment lock in ‘vicious cycle of punishment’
Over a million days – or 2,890 years – of additional imprisonment have been imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules in the past six years, Ministry of Justice figures have confirmed.
2 Jun 2016
UN agency warns 4.6 million face food insecurity in Burundi
Some 4.6 million people in Burundi are food insecure, with more than 500,000 of them requiring urgent emergency food assistance, the UN food relief agency has said, warning that food stocks are stretched as a result of the fragile socio-economic context in the country.
2 Jun 2016
Foreign Secretary fails to request kidnapped Briton’s release
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he used a visit to Ethiopia yesterday (1 June 2016) to secure ‘legal access’ for a British man who was kidnapped and rendered to the country in 2014, and who is now held under sentence of death.
1 Jun 2016
Christians found guilty over climate protest
Five Christians were found guilty yesterday (31 May 2016) of causing criminal damage when they whitewashed the walls of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
2 Jun 2016
Yearly Meeting focuses on living out Quaker faith in the world
A programme for more than 100 young people, from babies to teenagers, was part of Yearly Meeting 2016, bringing together 1,000 Quakers from around Britain, visiting Quakers from around the world and interfaith guests, including Billy Kennedy, a president of Churches Together in England, and Jagbir Jhuti-Johal, senior lecturer in Sikh Studies at the University of Birmingham.