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SIHRG upcoming events:

Watch this space.

For non-lawyer activists we have published a "Straightforward Guide for Criminal Trial Observers". We are prepared to publish editions adapted to any country and to permit the Guide's translation to any language. Just contact us via the contacts page
The new committee of SIHRG has been elected as follows:
  • Chair: Alastair Logan OBE
  • Vice-Chair: Ruby Sandhu
  • Treasurer: Anne-Marie Irwin
  • Secretary: Sebastian Rounds
  • Education & Training Officer:  Lionel Blackman
Committee members:  Chara De Lacey, Samuel Moodey and  Francesca Allen

A rule change ensuring only solicitors serve on the committee and that para-legals and students may only serve if co-opted has been carried without a vote against.  Also, no two or more committee members may have a strong involvement in the same firm or NGO/interest group.

Recent events:

Refugees and Asylum in the UK - Practical Challenges

15th May 2017 at 6:00 pm at the University of Law,

14 Store St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7DE

                                   Sheona York - solicitor

     Of the Kent Law Clinic since 2012 she undertakes various casework, teaching, research and policy work in immigration and asylum.

 Ahmad Al-Rashid

A Syrian refugee granted asylum in the UK in 2015. He will speak a little about Syria before the conflict, his experience in the conflict zone, his experience fleeing Syria as a refugee and his journey to the UK, as well as his experience in the UK and his plans for the future.



SIHRG has a comprehensive suite of online Guides to international human rights law. CLICK HERE to access the Guides, now for free.



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UN Wire: 21st July 2017 : CLICK HERE

UN Civil Society Update 19th July 2017

UN Jurisprudence Database

NEW: Rights In Russia weekly update

ALL MEMBERS CAN SUBMIT NEW IDEAS FOR PROJECTS ONLINE......................Click here     

  • NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING will be held September 2017.  CONTACT ADMIN IF YOU HAVE MATTERS TO RAISE 
  • MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION ON OUR WEB SITE AT ANYTIME - SEND TO ADMIN
SIHRG trainers have returned from St Petersburg October 2016, January and February 2017 where seminars were conducted on the role of lawyers at the police station, trial observation skills and advocacy training and ethics. The collaboration was extended to further lectures in three Siberian cities in March.  See REPORT HERE.

Following successful trial observation training for Turkish lawyers and activists SIHRG is completing a written guide for trial observers working in Turkey.

SIHRG joined forces with OpenTrial to provide training in Malawi in April in trial observation skills and the use of OpenTrial's special mobile app. See the REPORT and flyers for the training HERE.


SIHRG observers have completed a trial observation of two Burmese migrants on trial on the island of Koh Samui Thailand for the murder of two British citizens in September 2014. The verdict of guilty and death penalties was delivered on Christmas Eve 2015. The  REPORT is available HERE.

Other reports are available via the trial observation link on the left.


Alastair Logan OBE delivered a summary of the Guildford Four case and law reform in this broadcast created at the request of Citizens Watch St Petersburg and promoted on their Russian website.