CAMPACC: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities

CAMPACC in Association with Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers

Hosted by Lord Rea. All welcome.

With speakers:
Imran Khan Solicitor, Imran Khan & Partners, Vice-President of Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Isabella Sankey Policy Director, Liberty
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Hicham Yezza, Writer and Activist, Editor of Ceasefire Magazine. Unjustly detained under terror laws for 6 days.  He has recently won his case against the Home Office's attempts to deport him.
Anne Gray, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC)

Pre-charge detention refers to the period of time that an individual can be held and questioned by police before being charged with an offence.

In 2008 the Labour Government dropped its controversial plans to extend pre-charge detention to 42 days after Liberty’s award winning Charge or Release campaign.

The fight is not over - the UK already has the longest period of pre-charge detention in the western world. Read more

Will candidates say no to unjust ‘anti-terrorism’ powers?
Use the lobbying contacts to question your local candidates with our sample questions.

Allegations of British complicity in the torture and abuse of detainees in Afghanistan will be scrutinised at a Judicial Review in the High Court from19 April, 1.30pm at the High Court of Justice, challenging the policy of transferring persons captured by UK forces in Afghanistan into Afghan custody.

Police have paid compensation and apologised to the comedian and activist Mark Thomas after they admitted unlawfully searching him for looking "over-confident" at a demonstration. The Guardian.

In an act reminiscent of the anti-communist McCarthy witch-hunts in the '50s the Belgian authorities have refused to come clean about why Luk Vervaet has been  blacklisted from working in any of the country's prisons. To do so, they say, would threaten national security, national defence and public order. The Morning Star

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”.

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

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.