Events
Netpol Conference 2012.The Network for Police Monitoring conference looks at the concept of ‘Total Policing’ – the London based initiative with an elusive definition. Are we seeing Total Policing? Or, in reality, a Total Lockdown?
Bishopsgate Institute Sunday 20th May 2012, from 10.30am to 4.30pm
Click here for more info and to register.Articles & resources
CAMPACC has produced 4 new briefings, available to download (pdf format):
Baluchistan under state terror: The UK ban on the Baluchistan Liberation Army
Euskal Herria: The struggle for independence in the Basque Country and the impact of ‘terrorist’bans
The UK ban on the PKK: Persecuting the Kurds
The Tamils of Sri Lanka - oppressed at home and persecuted in the UK
CAMPACC statement: UK anti-terror regime: creating hatred of Muslims as a suspect community
NUJ Ethix Council Guidelines on reporting terrorism
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.
"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
Cases of Turkey & Kurds; Pakistan & Baloch; Spain & Basques; Sri Lanka & Tamils
Videos and a report of a seminar organised by Campacc and others on 18 March 2012.
The cases of Turkey & Kurds; Pakistan & Baloch; Spain & Basques; Sri Lanka & Tamils
SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2012, 1-6pm, ROOM 3B, 3RD FLOOR, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION (ULU), MALET STREET, WC1
Paul Donovan: This erosion to the centuries-old right to habeas corpus, namely the right not to be held in arbitrary detention, has been quietly going on in the shadows.
Jeremy Corbyn: One of the narratives of the last parliament was the very strange alliances that were formed to oppose new Labour's anti-terror laws but current plans published in the Justice and Security Green Paper are quite disastrous and are a far cry from the brief conservative love in with civil liberties during the new Labour government.
A roundup of developments and campaigns around these proposals.
Statewatch launches a unique online archive of over 4,500 official documents (rising to over 6,500 by the end of 2012) that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades.
Paul Donovan: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has played a vital role in safeguarding citizen's freedoms. The British Prime Minister recently took to berating the Council of Europe about the European Court of Human Rights.The Premier was looking for restrictions on the right to take cases to the ECHR in Strasbourg.
Jeremy Corbyn MP joins UK lawyers protest at the Turkish Embassy, Tuesday 24 January 2012, 12-1pm 43 Belgrave Square, SW 1