Events
Public meeting:
No to 28-day pre-charge detention
No to punishment without trial
No to the politics of fear
CAMPACC in Association with Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Tuesday, 13 July, 7-9pm
Committee Room 4, House of Lords, Westminster, SW1
Articles & resources
Liberty's Charge or Release campaign
Will candidates say no to unjust ‘anti-terrorism’ powers? - read CAMPACC's General Election leaflet. Use the lobbying contacts to question your local candidates with our sample questions.
Urge your MP to sign the Secret Evidence EDM
The NUJ’s Ethics Council has produced a set of guidelines to help journalists grappling with the problems of reporting police raids on ‘terrorist suspects’.
See details of two seminars on The Basque Country and Northern Ireland: Self-Determination, Proscription and Human Rights in the EU organised by CAMPACC, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Statewatch, Basque Solidarity Campaign
Pakistani students turned into terror suspects CAMPACC looks behind the recent high-profile arrests. Labour Briefing, May 2009
Opposing the UK 'Terrorist' List: Persistence as Resistance CAMPACC paper, February 2009 (pdf file)
Read papers and reports from a series of seminars on "Terrorist lists", proscription, designation and human rights.
UNJUST POWERS in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, CAMPACC leaflet, Dec 2008 (pdf file)
Order Campacc's 'We are all terror suspects' t-shirt"Our tragedy and pain is part of the series of pains that is felt by people in cases like ours when laws are destroyed and flames ignited by politicians whose only desire is the achievement of their tyrannical subjugation and the spreading and domination of their lowly thoughts engulfs any notion of human rights."
Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers
Do anti-terror laws make us safer? Whom do they protect?
- define terrorism more broadly, thus blurring any distinction between anti-government protest and organized violence against civilians;
- label numerous organisations as ‘terrorist', as a basis for placing entire communities under suspicion of associating with ‘terrorism';
- use ‘intelligence' obtained by torturing detainees abroad;
- and detain and prosecute people for suspected activities which could just as well be handled under other laws. Read more
What's new
CAMPACC in Association with Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Tuesday, 13 July, 7-9pmCommittee Room 4, House of Lords, Westminster, SW1
Hosted by Lord Rea. All welcome.
With speakers:
Imran Khan Solicitor, Imran Khan & Partners, Vice-President of Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Isabella Sankey Policy Director, Liberty
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Hicham Yezza, Writer and Activist, Editor of Ceasefire Magazine. Unjustly detained under terror laws for 6 days. He has recently won his case against the Home Office's attempts to deport him.
Anne Gray, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)
Pre-charge detention refers to the period of time that an individual can be held and questioned by police before being charged with an offence.
In 2008 the Labour Government dropped its controversial plans to extend pre-charge detention to 42 days after Liberty’s award winning Charge or Release campaign.
The fight is not over - the UK already has the longest period of pre-charge detention in the western world. Read more
Will candidates say no to unjust ‘anti-terrorism’ powers?
Use the lobbying contacts to question your local candidates with our sample questions.
Allegations of British complicity in the torture and abuse of detainees in Afghanistan will be scrutinised at a Judicial Review in the High Court from19 April, 1.30pm at the High Court of Justice, challenging the policy of transferring persons captured by UK forces in Afghanistan into Afghan custody.
In an act reminiscent of the anti-communist McCarthy witch-hunts in the '50s the Belgian authorities have refused to come clean about why Luk Vervaet has been blacklisted from working in any of the country's prisons. To do so, they say, would threaten national security, national defence and public order. The Morning Star
Gari was arrested on Sunday 14/03/2010 by the metropolitan police on behalf of the Spanish authorities under a European Arrest Warrant alleging “terrorist offences”.
The House of Commons will debate whether the controversial control order system will be renewed on Monday 1st March 2010. There are serious concerns about the renewal of control orders from all sections of our civil society. CAMPACC organised an open letter to the Home Secretary from over 120 individuals drawn from a range of professions and organisations urging him to not to pursue their renewal.