News & events
Olympic Goodwill Image Belied by Arrests, Censorship and Corporate Ties Behind London GamesTuesday, July 31, 2012 While NBC has been airing wall-to-wall coverage of Olympic Games in London, little attention has been paid to what has taken place behind the scenes and just outside Olympic Park.
The Government’s Draft Communications Data Bill was published in June marking the first step on a slippery slope towards blanket surveillance of the entire population. The Bill proposes to increase the collection and storage of “communications data” – records of email, text and phone calls – for the entire population.
A detailed report launched on 24 July by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) highlights how promises made by the police to ‘adapt to protest’ after 2009′s G20 demonstrations in London have been forgotten in a remarkably short space of time and a far more intolerant ‘total policing’ style response to protesters has developed in the UK.
A report by David Anderson, QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. CAMPACC was involved in organising meetings of delegates from the Kurdish, Baloch and Communities with David Anderson.
We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks. He describes being detained more than a dozen times at the airport and interrogated by federal agents who asked about his political views and confiscated his cellphone and laptop. - Democracy Now, 20 April 2012
In part two of our national broadcast exclusive on the growing domestic surveillance state, we speak with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney and two targeted Americans: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras and hacker Jacob Appelbaum, who has volunteered for WikiLeaks and now works with Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that teaches about internet security. - Democracy Now, 20 April 2012
Cases of Turkey & Kurds; Pakistan & Baloch; Spain & Basques; Sri Lanka & Tamils
Videos and a report of a seminar organised by Campacc and others on 18 March 2012.
The cases of Turkey & Kurds; Pakistan & Baloch; Spain & Basques; Sri Lanka & Tamils
SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2012, 1-6pm, ROOM 3B, 3RD FLOOR, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION (ULU), MALET STREET, WC1
Paul Donovan: This erosion to the centuries-old right to habeas corpus, namely the right not to be held in arbitrary detention, has been quietly going on in the shadows.
Jeremy Corbyn: One of the narratives of the last parliament was the very strange alliances that were formed to oppose new Labour's anti-terror laws but current plans published in the Justice and Security Green Paper are quite disastrous and are a far cry from the brief conservative love in with civil liberties during the new Labour government.
A roundup of developments and campaigns around these proposals.
Statewatch launches a unique online archive of over 4,500 official documents (rising to over 6,500 by the end of 2012) that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades.
Paul Donovan: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has played a vital role in safeguarding citizen's freedoms. The British Prime Minister recently took to berating the Council of Europe about the European Court of Human Rights.The Premier was looking for restrictions on the right to take cases to the ECHR in Strasbourg.
Jeremy Corbyn MP joins UK lawyers protest at the Turkish Embassy, Tuesday 24 January 2012, 12-1pm 43 Belgrave Square, SW 1
This submission addresses six main areas of proceedings in which secret evidence either is used by the state or may be withheld from the defendent, appellant or claimant; actions to secure compensation for wrongdoing by state agents; trials abroad where an individual seeks disclosure of sensitive material from the UK authorities to assist his or her defence; SIAC; TPIMs; asset freezing orders and appeals against proscription of organisations.