Communities targeted for harassment and prosecutions
News about how anti-terror laws affect communities
Gari was arrested on Sunday 14/03/2010 by the metropolitan police on behalf of the Spanish authorities under a European Arrest Warrant alleging “terrorist offences”.
In Dublin on the 16th January 2010, the Peoples' Tribunal gave its preliminary findings on the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath.
Read the Institute for Policy Research & Development's submission and supplementary memorandum to the Preventing Violent Extremism inquiry held by the Communities and Local Government Parliamentary Committee.
Reports and speeches from a public meeting in Parliament on the purpose and continuing effects of the Terrorism Act 2000 in proscribing 'terrorist organisations'.
6.30pm Wednesday 28 October 2009, Committee Room 12, House of Commons, Westminster, SW1 (St Stephens entrance)
Hosted by Siobhain McDonagh MP & Joan Ryan MP
Speakers include: Matt Foot, solicitor; Gareth Peirce, human rights lawyer, Jan Jananayagam, spokesperson for “Tamils Against Genocide”; Les Levidow, CAMPACC; Hyrbyair Marri, Baloch leader; Kazim Aqpak, Kurdish Federation UK
Anti-terror laws used against Tamils
The UK Terrorism Act 2000 is the basis for banning the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a ‘terrorist’ organisation.
Anti-terror laws used against Kurds
The UK Terrorism Act 2000 is the basis for banning the Kurdish organisations as ‘terrorist’. In 2006 Britain banned Kongra-Gel (People’s Congress of Kurdistan) as an organisation that ‘glorifies terrorism’.
Anti-terror laws used against the Baloch
Under the Terrorism Act 2000, two Baloch human rights activists were prosecuted for supposedly supporting terrorism in Balochistan. The trial revealed joint efforts by 'security' agencies in the UK and Pakistan to silence dissent against Pakistani state terrorism. The defendants were acquitted in early 2009.