CAMPACC: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities

(London) CAGE is outraged by the arrest of our Outreach Director, Moazzam Begg. A former Guantanamo Bay detainee, he has been campaigning for due process and the human rights of victims, despite suffering over three years of torture and abuse by the US government with the complicity of the British security services.

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!"

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

Read the report from Hevallo (pdf file)