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News about stop & search and arrests & release without charge

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22-09-2009
Stop MI5 blackmail! Public meeting

7pm Weds 30 September 2009, London

Speakers include:
Shar Habeel Lone, Director, Kentish Town Community Organisation (KTCO)
Mohamed Nur, community worker
Saghir Hussain, CagePrisoners
Savas Kurt, Kurdish Federation UK
Frances Webber, lawyer
Alex Goodman, Camden Councillor, Green Party
Les Levidow, CAMPACC

Read the report from the meeting

27-07-2009
The secret trials that besmirch Britain's immigration law

It is on this conveyor belt of injustice that the seven Pakistani students start today
by Paul Donovan

11-06-2009
Guilty until proven innocent

by Paul Donovan

24-04-2009
Pakistani students turned into terror suspects

Les Levidow, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities looks behind the recent high-profile arrests. Labour Briefing, May 2009

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Stop-and-search and arrest & release without charge

Under the 2000 Act, police gained powers to impose stop-and-search on an arbitrary basis, without any grounds for suspicion about an individual. These powers have been widely used to harass political activists. Under this Act they also gained powers to detain ‘terror suspects' without charge for 7 days. This was later extended to 14 days, and then to 28 days in 2005. Such long detentions impose punishment without trial, psychological pressure on ‘suspects', and damage to their livelihoods.

For more information see:

Use of police stop-and-search powers under terror law surges, The Guardian, 1 May 2009

Racial profiling and anti-terror stop and search, Institute of Race Relations, 31 January 2006

Asian men targeted in stop and search: Huge rise in number questioned under anti-terror laws, The Guardian, 17 August 2005