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Newsweek Cover Story by Andrew Williams: Torture and The British Army
An investigation by Prof. Andrew Williams, Centre co-director, is the cover story for Newsweek. The piece entitled "British Soldiers Accused of Torture and Abuse During Iraq Occupation" documents the widespread allegations against British soldiers in Iraq and questions whether the current investigations into those allegations are sufficient to produce meaningful change.
Andrew Williams is the Orwell prize winner for political writing for his book "A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa"
Summit to explore future of peaceful protest at Warwick
The Co-Directors of the Centre for Human Rights in Practice, Andrew Williams and James Harrison are currently consulting in relation to the protest summit which was announced this week. They will be announcing further details next week.
43 Law School Academics write open lettercalling for the UAE to release Mohammed al-Roken
Forty Three academics from the Law School at the University of Warwick have written an open letter urging the President of the United Arab Emirates to release immediately and unconditionally human rights lawyer and law professor Dr. Mohammed al-Roken.
Dr al-Roken is a former masters and PhD student of our Law School. He is now a prisoner of conscience serving a 10-year prison sentence, after a mass trial of 94 reform advocates and government critics in July 2013. The trial has been widely condemned by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and various UN Special Rapporteurs and international human rights organizations.
You can read the letter here.