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Documents on the UK Anti-Terrorism Acts 2000 and 2001 and the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005

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"


Articles about the international "War on Terrorism"

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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