Terror bans
News about the terror bans
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
Police armed with machine guns raided a Kurdish tent at the Occupy protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral tonight, Thursday.
"As Xezal's nightmare unfolded she was taken, handcuffed, from the plane straight onto the tarmac where a police car was waiting and driven away. She described how she was petrified as these armed men had taken her and she did not even really know who they were!"
British society has learned numerous lessons from last month’s riots. Perhaps, however, not ones many had hoped for. Just days after the riots broke, emergent was an unmistakable one-dimensional narrative aimed at stoking fear and panic.
The director of the Institute of Race Relations comments on the recent riots.
David Cameron’s call for more ‘robust’ policing demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of policing issues on Britain’s estates.
An event in London marking the Bradford 12 thirtieth anniversary was a celebration and an education for resistance.
With articles on: The Kurdish struggle for freedom and democracy in Turkey, Justice and Freedom for Kurdish Children and Mass Show Trial puts all Kurds in the Dock
For more details read the CAMPACC paper:
Opposing the UK 'Terrorist' List: Persistence as Resistance February 2009 (pdf file)
CAMPACC has produced 4 new briefings, available to download (pdf format):
Baluchistan under state terror: The UK ban on the Baluchistan Liberation Army
Euskal Herria: The struggle for independence in the Basque Country and the impact of ‘terrorist’bans
The UK ban on the PKK: Persecuting the Kurds
The Tamils of Sri Lanka - oppressed at home and persecuted in the UK
See recent CAMPACC work on:
Reports and speeches from a public meeting in Parliament in October 2009 on the purpose and continuing effects of the Terrorism Act 2000 in proscribing 'terrorist organisations'.
Two seminars on The Basque Country and Northern Ireland: Self-Determination, Proscription and Human Rights in the EU
Organised by CAMPACC, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Statewatch, Basque Solidarity Campaign, June - July 2009
A seminar series on 'Terrorist lists', proscription, designation and human rights
Organised by CAMPACC, the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and Statewatch, 2008
'Terrorists' lists: monitoring proscription, designation and asset freezing
In June 2005 Statewatch, CAMPACC and the Human Rights and Social Justice Institute set up the 'Terrorist' list website monitoring proscription, designation and asset freezing.
Charities accounts frozen or denied
Under the ATCSA 2001, the authorities can seize property or cash, and freeze bank accounts, in cases of suspicion about 'terrorist' purposes. These powers have been used to investigate charities and to freeze their bank accounts. A prime target for such harassment has been Interpal, which funds humanitarian activities in occupied Palestine, yet investigations have found no evidence of terrorist links.
Communities targeted for harassment and prosecutions
CAMPACC has been campaigning against anti-terror laws being used against Kurdish, Tamil and other communities.
See CAMPACC responses to legislation:
CAMPACC Submission to the Joint Committee for Human Rights on the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Bill, October 2010CAMPACC submission to the Privy Council Review: Terrorising Minority Communities with 'Anti-Terrorism' Powers: their Use and Abuse, August 2003 (pdf) and read the Privy Council Review of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001, Dec 2003 (pdf)
The Real State of Emergency. A comprehensive guide to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2001 published by CAMPACC in 2003
The end of Internment? CAMPACC statement in reponse to the Law Lords’ ruling on indefinite detention, 23 December 2004 and Read the Law Lords damning judgement on detention without trial (383kb), 16 December 2004 (pdf)
A Permanent State of Terror? a book published by CAMPACC in association with Index on Censorship, October 2003
See the legislation:
Full text of the Terrorism Act 2000
List of Banned Groups and Entities