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Countering insurgencies is as old as states and empires. As a concept, however, study in Counterinsurgency (COIN) gained momentum in the colonial period so as to deal with frequently occurring rebellions in colonies as well as to counter the “communist menace”.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued judgement in the case of Babar Ahmad and Others v The United Kingdom, thereby making a landmark ruling on the legitimacy of solitary confinement, extreme isolation and life without parole in US supermax prisons (view ECHR press release and ruling).
Talha has already been detained for over 6 years without trial or charge in the UK on the notorious 2003 US-UK extradition treaty. He has now been extradited to the US. If convicted he faces life without parole in solitary confinement at ADX Florence, Colorado. Support the campaign here: http://freetalha.org
A presentation Aisha Maniar gave on behalf of CASE (Coalition Against Secret Evidence) at the CAMPACC monthly meeting on Monday 10 September 2012.
Obsessively sensitive about its image, Turkey seeks to present a modern, liberal and democratic face to the outside world, but the reality for people involved in public life inside the country is far different. Repression is the regime’s inevitable knee-jerk response to those seeking to exercise their civil rights to effect change and participate in political activities accepted as normal in a modern democratic state.
Gareth Peirce was awarded the Hans Litten Prize by the German Association of Democratic Lawyers (VDJ). Bill Bowering as President of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights (ELDH) gave the address at their 40th meeting on 15 September 2012.
The secret justice bill will normalise security force abuses – and undermine the Northern Ireland peace process
Activists from Kurdistan, Colombia, Ireland and the island of Sri Lanka, talking about the role geopolitics played in determining peace-processes and conflict in various cases, informed a mixed audience of activists, academics and journalists of the nuances of their respective cases connecting it with larger trends at an event organized at Trinity College, Dublin on Thursday, 24 May 2012.
“The Sri Lankan conflict is now a transnational war against the Tamil diaspora that enables the continued political repression of political aspirations both in Sri Lanka and abroad,” writes Dr. Vicki Sentas in a chapter published in a recently released book “Counter-Terrorism and state political violence: The ‘war on terror’ as terror”.
10 citizens and over 390 prisoners start hunger strikes and protests in solidarity with Iosu Uribetxeberria. 11 members of Herrira (asociation for rights of political prisoners) and over 390 prisoners in Spanish and French different jails have started hunger strikes and protests in solidarity with Iosu Uribetxeberria.
The phenomena - or, more precisely, the discource - of 'terrorism' has increasingly come to dominate contemporary international politicis.
Not accidentally, settler states (primarily the United States, Israel and apartheid South Africa) were leaders in the thirty-year development of an entire industry devoted to the study, prevention, and combating of 'terrorism'.
It has now been more than 2,889 days that Babar Ahmad has been detained without charge in UK prisons. This makes him the longest serving British citizen imprisoned withouth charge or trial in modern history.
In June, the second review of terrorism acts was published by David Anderson, QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Given the limits of his remit, he has provided a circumscribed critique. Nonetheless, the report points towards possible reform of the now well-entrenched terrorism laws.
The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history. Billions of pounds are taken from poor and middle-income taxpayers and service users to build temples to a corporate and sporting elite. Democratic, grassroots sport is stripped of money to fund the most rarefied sport imaginable.