Events
Seminar: The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain 1974-2007: comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities, London Metropolitan University, 5 March 2010. See more
Theatre: Waiting by Victoria Brittain, South Bank, 12-13 March 2010. After each performance, Victoria Brittain chairs a debate discussing the issues raised. See more
Articles & resources
Write to your MP to urge them to vote against the renewal of control orders on 1 March. Sign Liberty's petition.
Will candidates say no to unjust ‘anti-terrorism’ powers? - read CAMPACC's General Election leaflet
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
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.
Please write to your MP - see specimen letter
Sign up to Liberty's petition to end control orders. You can also email your MP through Liberty's website
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities 2010 general election campaign leaflet
The general election offers an opportunity to highlight the injustice of ‘anti-terror’ powers. They attack the right to a fair trial, to habeas corpus, to freedom of expression and political organisation. They are increasingly used to harass innocent people and peaceful protestors.
Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, will be touring the UK, showing the new Guantánamo documentary “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” and attending post-screening Q&A sessions.
In an extraordinary and disturbing development in Reprieve client Binyam Mohamed’s case, it emerged on 12 February that the British Government’s barrister wrote a note to one of the Court of Appeal judges in an attempt to manipulate the draft judgment. This note was not copied to Binyam’s lawyers, which prevented them objecting. Yesterday the court ordered that the other parties to the case now be allowed to respond, after which there will be a hearing as to whether the judgment will be altered.
Police are planning to use an anti-terror law deemed unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights across the country during the London Olympics, The Times has learnt.
This seminar will report on the first comparative research project examining the impact of counter-terrorism on Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain. This ESRC-funded collaborative research involves academics based at London Metropolitan University and City University, London, with a long track-record of researching immigration, social cohesion, Islam, and the media.