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ARTICLES AND INFORMATION
The
UK Anti-Terrorism Acts 2000, 2001 and 2005
Articles about UK torture
Articles about UK legislation
Articles about the
international "War on Terrorism"
Also see News for articles
and digests of recent events. Other news sources include weekly updates
from Statewatch
(some are listed here), the
Institute
of Race Relations, Stop
Political Terror and Fair
Trials UK
The Prevention
of Terorism Act 2005
The full text from HMSO. CAMPACC's response.
A
Permanent State of Terror?
Published by CAMPACC in association with Index on Censorship, October
2003
Read the Institute of Race Relations Anti
terror survey Sept 2001-Feb 2003 and the survey update Sept 2004
Arrests under
Anti-Terrorism Legistlation, March 2003 (PDF file, 72kb) For
update, see here.
The Real State of Emergency
A comprehensive guide to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2001
List of Banned Groups and
Entities
The Terrorism
Act 2000
Full text of the Act from the
Stationary office. Hansard's account of Parliamentary
debate concerning proscribed organisations.
The
Anti-Terrorism Crime & Security Act 2001
Full text from the Stationary
Office. An index of the Lord's debates in Hansard's.
A comprehensive guide is The
Real State of Emergency.
Report
on terror suspects’
treatment buried by ministers. By Liam McDougall, Home
Affairs Editor,
Sunday Herald, 4th June 2006.
'In
Britain, I have fewer rights than an animal'. By Paul
Donovan, The Guardian, 29th March 2007.
CAMPACC response
to the government consultation on 'Managing Protest around Parliament'.
17/01/08.
For more
information please click here.
A PDF file
of the Home Office consultation document is available here.
The
injustices faced by those charged with control order breaches are
indefensibly brutal.
Gareth Peirce - Friday December 21, 2007.
Defend Aamer Anwar
The story so far.
A shocking
welcome.
Victoria Brittain - 20 December, 2007.
If MPs pass ridiculous
laws to limit our freedom, they should be forced to abide by them too.
Mark Thomas - Thursday December 13, 2007.
Summary
of public meeting on National campaign against anti-terror powers.
Paul
Donovan, 29 November 2007.
Insecurity over
Queen's speech. Paul Donovan, Letter to the Editor, Guardian,
17th Nov 2006
Government's anti-terror briefing does not
add up
By Harmit Athwal, Institute of Race Relations, 17 March 2005
Other articles are the UK's
anti-terrorism policy from the IRR
Letters
and accounts from
detainees in prison.
THE END OF INTERNMENT? The
Law Lords’ ruling on indefinite detention
CAMPACC statement,
23 December 2004
Media articles about the
Law Lords judgement that detention without trial is illegal
Various, December 2004
Read the Law Lords damning judgement on
detention without trial (383kb)
16 December 2004
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - UK: Freedom in the Balance
and Q & A:
Britain's Highest Court to Determine the Legality of Indefinite
Detention, October 2004
Amnesty International
makes submission to House of Lords opposing indefinite detention,
October 2004
Guantánamo in
our back yard - Rachel Shabi, The Guardian, September 11, 2004
British Muslims are bewildered and
scared - Ismail Patel, The Independent, 05 August 2004
Criminalising Communities
- Caitriona Ruane's address to the CAMPACC meeting, 26 May, House of
Commons
Brian
Barder explains why he resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals
Commission
London Review of Books - 18 March 2004
Privy Council calls for
“Britain's Guantanamo Bay” to be scrapped as "a
matter of urgency". See here (Dec 03)
Read Amnesty International's
condemnation of the UK's 'shadow criminal justice system'
(Dec 03)
See The Guardian's special report on
Guantanamo (Dec 03)
Talk on Internment given by
Gareth Peirce - a useful summary
15th December 2003
Terrorism and Individual
Liberty: the Responsibilities of the State
Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith's speech to International Bar
Association Annual
Conference, 18 September 2003
The Terrorism Act - Embracing
Tyranny
Making an asylum claim could lead to criminal charges under
anti-terrorism legislation,
Frances Webber, human rights lawyer
Muslims in UK jails tell of
plight
Audrey Gillan, 9 September, 2002 The Guardian
No names, no charges, no
explanations: the plight of Britain's interned 'terrorists'
Audrey Gillan, 9 September, 2002 The Guardian
Power to intern without
trial
Richard Norton-Taylor, 9 September, 2002 The Guardian
When justice is truly blind
Nick Cohen, 4 August, 2002 The Observer
Court rules terror suspects'
detention unlawful
The government's anti-terrorism legislation suffered a serious blow,
30 July, 2002
Terror, security and the media
Observer Liberty Watch campaign
Martin Bright, 19 July 2002 The Guardian
European torture watchdog in
secret visit to UK
21 February 2002, Liberty Human Rights
The debate nobody wants
Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian 18 May 2001
Mark Thomas on the Terrorism Act
New Statesman, 26 April 2001
Wrong T-shirt son? You're nicked
"The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us
all"
George Monbiot The Guardian 22 February 2001
Kurds challenge terror group ban
Owen Bowcott 23 February 2002, The Guardian
Anti-terrorism legislation and
the Arab/Muslim community in Britain
Ghada Karmi 14 August 2001
"a little discussed, but drastic, piece of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim
legislation"
The Coffin:
Another Way Out of Guantanamo
by Moazzam Begg ,
Cageprisoners.com, June 09, 2007
Turkey's US
backed ‘war on terror’: a cause for concern ?
by Desmond Fernandes,
October 10, 2006
Report on Sandra Bakutz
trial, Ankara, Turkey
by Steve Kaczynski, March 30, 2005
Arrested without reasonable
cause
Mark Thomas, New Statesman, 7 February 2005
Inside Guantanamo Bay: Two
days. Fifty detainees. Three interrogations. An exclusive look
Paisley Dodds, Associated Press 11 July 2004
Police spying operation exposed
from the Partnership for Civil Justice in the US
Guantanamo Bay: The legal black
hole
By Johan Steyn, 25 November 2003
[Lord Steyn is a judicial member of the House of Lords - the UK's
supreme court]
Political rivalry undermines
Colombia human rights trip
Colombia Three update, from RM News, 15 November 2002
Peoples' security versus
national security
Liz Fekete, returning from a regional conference in Thailand on
"Democracy and Security of the People of the Asian Region", 9 September
2002
US Planning to Recruit One in
24 Americans as Citizen Spies
By Ritt Goldstein, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July 2002
Corporate Mercenaries Spy on
Americans and Seize their Assets
by Daniel Forbes, ALTERNET
Top US official lied about Al
Qaida-Farc link
By Maria Engqvist, ANNCOL Stockholm
Spain moves to ban Basque
separatist party
10 April, 2002, The Guardian
Violence doesn't work
Howard Zinn
The Progressive magazine, 14 September, 2001
America's dirty Afghan secret:
It's a war over oil
Tehelka, News and Views, New Delhi, 21 November 2001
The Holy Alliance, past and
present
Uri Avnery
Anarchists to be targeted as
"Terrorists" alongside Al Qaed
Essential article from Statewatch.org
"US consortia will take over the
running of prisons worldwide..."
extract from "Propaganda, Hypocrisy and the Torture Trade",
Antonia Feitz, 23 June 1999
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