Southampton, United Kingdom
Speaker & Film Event
Date: Thursday 23rd Feb
Time: 7pm
Venue: Murray Lecture Theatre (Room 58, Building 1067), Main Highfield Campus, Southampton University
Programme: Address by Humza Qureshi
Humza Qureshi is the Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Islamic Human Rights Commission (www.ihrc.org) and acts as spokesperson for Save Chechnya Campaign (www.savechechnya.org).
Film showing: 'Chechnya, the Dirty Way'
Reporters Mariusz Pilis and Marcin Mamon travel to neighbouring Chechnya, one of the most dangerous places on earth, to report on what life is like after more than a decade of Chechen terrorism and Russian repression. Filmed over the course of nine months, the film reveals that what started as a separatist movement in 1994 has now become synonymous with terrorism.
For further details, please contact Omar Bradford @ ob104@soton.ac.uk.
