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International human rights conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 20 October 2009
The 'proscription' or 'designation' of alleged “terrorists”, their associates and financial supporters by nation-states, the European Union and the United Nations has been among the most controversial aspects of the so-called “war on terror”.
A report published today (16 October) by the Institute of Race Relations finds that the government's Prevent programme for tackling extremism fosters division, mistrust and alienation.
Report by David Mery of a public meeting, Stop MI5 blackmail!, held at Camden Town Hall, 30 September 2009, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
This case illustrates the politics of 'anti-terror' powers: the police treat routine behaviour as suspicious, arbitrarily create 'terror suspects', and then escalate their harassment in order to justify the original 'suspicion'. This case is unusual only because the targeted person kept demanding a formal, public apology until the Met Police accommodated this demand for basic justice.
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
"We wish to place before your esteemed honours our report on the violations of human rights and denial of fundamental freedoms perpetrated on innocent Tamil civilians in the North and East due to long years of war and military occupation. The human rights situation has been deteriorating there for many decades. Cultural and mandated genocide, multiple displacements and impunity are all very serious problems."
A wholesale review of control orders, which restrict the freedoms of some terror suspects, has been instigated by Home Secretary Alan Johnson.
by David Morgan, Peace in Kurdistan Campaign
It is on this conveyor belt of injustice that the seven Pakistani students start today
by Paul Donovan
Saleh Mamon of the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities exposes how justice is trampled underfoot in the British state’s war on terror. Published in Labour Briefing, June 2009.
The first of two seminars on The Basque Country and Northern Ireland: Self-Determination, Proscription and Human Rights in the EU.
The first of two seminars on The Basque Country and Northern Ireland: Self-Determination, Proscription and Human Rights in the EU.