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NEWS
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does not attempt to be comprehensive. other news sources include weekly
updates from Statewatch (some are listed here),
the Institute
of Race Relations, Stop
Political Terror and Fair
Trials UK
Statewatch
News online including
Statewatch
terrorist list updated.
Press Release
from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
9.30am
12 November 2007,
Aamer
Anwar, Alasdair Gray and community leaders to speak on terror
laws.
London: police
and “terrorists”
By
Mike Marqusee, The Hindu, 25th June 2006
Police
invasion
of Forest Gate: ‘anti-terror
raid’ or psychological warfare?
CAMPACC
statement 9th June 2006
Useful news
items
for use in the general elections
12 April 2005
Media articles
about the Law Lords judgement that detention without trial is illegal
Various, December 2004
Briton details
U.S. abuse at Guantanamo
AP, 17 December 04
News
Digest - October - November 2004
News
Digest - August - October 2004
Britain's core
values face ultimate trial
The Observer, October 3, 2004
U.S. jails
Kurd it had given asylum
Chicago Daily Tribune, September 3, 2004
News
Digest - July-August 2004
Judges in row
over torture ruling: Courts can hear evidence if abusers are not British
Audrey Gillan, 12/08/04, The Guardian
Terror
detainees lose appeal
Press Association, 11/08/04
Statewatch
News online including EU issues updated list of "terrorist
organisations and persons", Statewatch "Timetable" on the anti-terrorism
Declaration agreed on 25 March 2004, Statewatch European Monitor vol 4 no 5 (May
2004) published: monthly round-up of
developments in EU justice and home affairs policy, Also: UK:
Manchester United supporters have been helping Iraqi Kurdish refugees
who were wrongly accused of plotting to bomb Old Trafford: IRR News
Service, UK: Mark Thomas article in "New Statesman" on ID cards, USA:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) file law suit demanding the
release of information
about detainees held by the United States at military bases and other
detention facilities overseas, UK: No to ID cards website launched -
no2id
plus other features
and news, 07/06/04
Statewatch News online including UK: CIVIL CONTINGENCIES BILL has been agreed
by the House of Commons and now moves to the House of Lords, MEPs seek challenge to EU-US air data deal,
Europe: First human rights internet radio
station launched, UK: "Forgotten Prisoners - The Plight of
Foreign National Prisoners in England and Wales":
Report from the Prison Reform Trust, Also: Europe: Detention
in Europe - paper from the Jesuit Refugee Service (April 2004), US:
Enormous list of individuals and companies etc whose funds are to be
blocked ("frozen")
plus other features
and news, 02/06/04
Kurds
and police meet over 'Old Trafford plot'
Community angry at raids that led to no terror charges
Saturday May 8, 2004, The Guardian
News Digest - January - March 2004
'You feel like an animal in a cage'
- Belmarsh detainee
From BBC on-line, 23 April 2004
Brian Barder explains why he
resigned from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission
London Review of Books - 18 March
2004
UK
authorities' refusal to accept yesterday's judgment amounts to
persecution
Amnesty International, 9 March 2004
Judges accuse Blunkett over terror
suspect
The Guardian Tuesday March 9, 2004
£1m terrorism case is
thrown out by judge
The Guardian, 2 March 2004
Statewatch News online including
Statewatch exclusive: EU planning to nod
through use of PNR (passenger) data for use by CAPPS II, UK: Gareth Pierce, lawyer, article on Home
Secretary's proposal to introduce secret trials for "suspected"
terrorists, plus Britain spied on UN allies over war vote;
European Roma Information Office (ERIO) Condemns anti-Roma media
campaign in the UK in wake of EU enlargement: UK: Passport Service
trials use of private credit data in ID checks; UK: Government
proposing to remove legal aid for hundred of thousands of cases
involving non-custodial sentences.
plus other features
and news, 09/02/04
US military lawyer denounces
Guantanamo Bay trials
Richard Phillips, 30 January 2004
U.S.: Despite Releases, Children
Still Held at Guantanamo
Human Rights Watch,
29 January 2004
Second law
lord criticises detentions at Guantanamo Bay
Independent, 28 January 2004
Bush Admin. Pushes Court on
Guantanamo Bay
Associated Press, Jan. 28, 2004
Human rights report criticizes U-S
policies at Guantanamo Bay
London-AP,
26 January 2004
plus other features and news, 12/01/04
Fresh hope for Guantanamo Britons
From
BBC on-line, 09 Jan 2004
News
Digest - November - December 2003
Privy Councillors call for
“Britain's Guantanamo Bay” to be scrapped as "a
matter of urgency".
See here for full text, Dec 2003
Bishops and leading human rights
campaigners call for end to internment in UK
The Guardian,
Saturday 13 December, 2003
Revealed:
shocking truth of Britain's 'Camp Delta'
The
Observer, Sunday December 14, 2003
Is
there another Guantanamo Bay on British soil? Diego Garcia is an island
where terrorist suspects may be being 'rendered' at a place called Camp
Justice
Mark
Seddon, The Independent 13 December 2003
United Kingdom: A shadow criminal
justice system
Amnesty
International press release and report, 11/12/03
Special Report: Guantanamo Bay
The Guardian's
special extended report, 03/12/03
Oppressive
policing of Campsfield demo
NCADC News Service, 1/12/03
Military Officers File Brief Against
Bush's Policy in Guantanamo
by
Frank Davies, 1/12/03
Guantanamo deal for Australia duo
BBC on-line, 26/11/03
Statewatch News online
including Proposed Regulation on European Border Guard
hides unaccountable, operational bodies, Greece: The “Thessaloniki
5” on hunger strike transferred to high security prison,
Spain: Immigrant minors to be interned and
deported, EU law on asylum procedures: An assault on
human rights?, UK: Home Secretary launches ID card scheme,
EU: MEP tables formal complaint on transfer
of personal data to USA, USA deliberately undermining the
International Criminal Court, UK: full-text: UK laws (Acts of
Parliament): UK laws 1988 - ongoing
plus other features
and news, 25/11/03
GUANTANAMO Bay detainees to be given
access to families
Radio Australia,
Australia, 25/11/03
Home Office 'Snoopers' Charter'
passes chaotically through the Lords
But crucial victories for privacy advocates make the score 11
Privacy
International, 13/11/03
Minister Snubs
Guantanamo Bay Campaigners
The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain,
12/11/03
Terror suspects lose appeal
BBC
on-line, Wednesday, 29/10/03
No right to trial for 10 terror
suspects - Men can be detained indefinitely, judges rule
The Guardian Thursday 30/10/03
News Digest - August to
October 2003
Tycoon blames Kremlin for
"terrorist" bombings
The Russian media magnate Boris Berezovsky has accused Russian special
services of a series of apartment block bombings in 1999 to justify a
crackdown on Chechnya that led to the election of Vladimir Putin as
president.
(The Independent,
06/03/02)
US president appeals for aid to
Yemen to fight terrorism
In his letter, Bush states the US willingness to grant any aid possible
to Yemen in the area of security, and urges donor nations to provide
Sanaa with all financial assistance to help it with economic and
development projects and its fight against terrorism.
(www.albawaba.com, 06/03/02)
Amnesty International appeal on
Guantanamo Bay detainees
Recent photographs of some of the detainees, released by the Pentagon,
showing a number of detainees at the base wearing blackened-out ski
goggles, mittens, masks, earmuffs, handcuffs and shackles, and kneeling
in the presence of US soldiers, have caused serious international
consternation. The detainees have also had their beards shaved off.
(Amnesty International, 04/03/02)
European torture watchdog in secret
visit to UK
Investigators from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) flew out of the
UK on Thursday 21 February, at the end of a five-day secret visit to
investigate the treatment of those interned under the ATCSA 2001. The
internees have been denied access to family and lawyers for long
periods since their detention in December... Seven remained in custody
by the end of January.
(Liberty, 28/02/02)
Kurds challenge terror group ban
Had the Terrorism Act 2000 been in force during the years of South
African apartheid, Lord Lester QC claimed, movements such as the ANC
would have been proscribed in this country... Lawyers for the PKK and
the PMOI accuse the government of failing to allow for groups fighting
a democratic cause against oppressive regimes.
(The Guardian, 23/02/02)
US may fight dirty in battle for
hearts and minds
America's new covert effort to win hearts and minds in the "war against
terrorism" has been spurred by one gnawing fear: that for all its
military successes - or perhaps because of them - Washington may be
losing the deeper struggle for public opinion around the world, above
all in the Islamic countries where it is most essential.
(The Independent, 20/02/02)
European arrest warrant brought
forward
Britain and five other EU countries decided to steam ahead yesterday
with plans for a controversial European arrest warrant, agreeing to
bring forward its introduction to early next year. It will allow police
to arrest Britons and send them straight to a foreign court after a
hearing by a judge, cutting out the current extradition process which
can take years to resolve and requires approval from the home secretary.
(The Guardian, 15/02/02)
Freed...After spending five months
in a high-security jail
They took him naked from the house and threw him into the back of a
police car. Raissi should have known something terrible was up when one
of the gunwielding Scotland Yard officers clocked the framed 737
pilotþs certificate on the wall and turned to his colleague,
smiled and said: Heþs our manÓ.
(The Guardian, 15/02/02)
US sends suspects to face torture
The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida
connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal,
according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to
such countries as Egypt and Jordan can be subjected to torture and
threats to their families to extract information sought by the US in
the wake of the September 11 attacks. A Yemeni microbiology student has
also been taken in this way, being flown from Pakistan to Jordan on a
US-registered jet. US forces also seized five Algerians and a Yemeni in
Bosnia on January 19 and flew them to Guantanamo Bay after the men were
released by the Bosnian supreme court for lack of evidence, and despite
an injunction from the Bosnian human rights chamber that four of them
be allowed to remain in the country pending further proceedings.
(The Guardian, 12/02/02)
Eight held in anti-terrorist raids
Immigration officers yesterday detained eight alleged international
terrorists during dawn raids on homes in London, the West Midlands and
Luton...Despite speculation about who would be rounded up when the
Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act came into force, none of the
high-profile Islamic fundamentalist leaders from groups such as
al-Muhajiroun or the Supporters of Shariah is believed to have been
seized.
(The Guardian, 21/12/01).
The Taliban of the west
On October 10, 22-year-old Neil Godfrey was banned from boarding a
plane travelling from Philadelphia to Phoenix because he was carrying a
novel by the anarchist writer Edward Abbey.
(George Monbiot, The
Guardian, 18/12/01)
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