SILBURY PRIZE
September 14, 2011
Bahraini human rights activist receives the Silbury Prize
On learning of the crackdown against Bahraini teachers and university students, reported on the Bahrain Center for Human Rights website on September 13, the Trustees of The Silbury Fund, a UK registered charity, meeting at the House of Commons on September 13, awarded Mr Nabeel Rajab, President of the Center, the Silbury Prize of £1,000.
The Silbury Fund Trustees, under the chairmanship of the Rt Hon Peter Hain MP a former UK Foreign Office Minister, unanimously decided to make the award to Mr Rajab to facilitate his on-going humanitarian and human rights work.
Lord Avebury, a trustee and Secretary of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, said: “This latest crackdown follows the severe attacks on doctors, other professionals, trade unionists and human rights activists; extreme violence against peaceful demonstrators, and show trials of leading members of the opposition”.
Background information:
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation which works to promote human rights in Bahrain.
The Silbury Fund is a UK registered charity which, since its foundation in 1973 has supported numerous individuals and educational projects concerned with the promotion of human rights, democracy and fighting racism.
For further information, please contact:
Lord Avebury
Email: ericavebury@gmail.com
Tel: 0207 219 3438
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- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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