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November 06, 2003 / Brian  |
| CagePrisoners Newsletter (March 12, 2010) |
| on 14 Mar 2010 by Brian |
| ----------------------------------------------------- Cageprisoners ----------------------------------------------------- 12 March 2010 CP Weekly Newsletter: This week: A series of events hosted by Cageprisoners; either zorb or run alongside an ex-Gitmo detainee to raise money for Cageprisoners; two interviews with attorneys who represent Guantanamo detainees and one with George Galloway; all of Moazzam Beggs events for the upcoming weeks; a series of feature length articles; and lastly a selection of [read more] |
| Law Lords Condemn UK’s Use of Secret Evidence And Control Orders |
| on 15 Jun 2009 by Brian |
| by Andy Worthington Source: Cageprisoners.com Date: June 13, 2009 Four years late, the Law Lords finally put the British government’s anti-terror policies under the spotlight on Wednesday by delivering a resounding repudiation of the government’s use of secret evidence to impose control orders on alleged terror suspects (the full judgment is here [link] ). An unjustified stranglehold on liberty: the control orders Introduced in March [read more] |
| Slovakia: Constitutional Court upholds the absolute prohibition of torture |
| on 02 Jul 2008 by Brian |
| Source: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Date: June 27, 2008 Slovakia: Constitutional Court upholds the absolute prohibition of torture Amnesty International welcomes the decision by the Slovak Constitutional Court on 26 June 2008 in the case of Mustapha Labsi, which reaffirms the absolute duty on the authorities not to send any person to any place where they face a real risk of torture or [read more] |
| The Other Guantanamo |
| The Other Guantanamo: Diego Garcia |
| on 11 Apr 2008 by Brian |
| by David Vine; editor Miriam Pemberton Source: Foreign Policy In Focus URL: [link] Date: April 3, 2008 On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the east coast [read more] |
| Court bans deportation of terror suspect |
| on 29 Feb 2008 by Brian |
| By Clare Dyer Source: The Guardian UK URL: [link] Date: February 28 2008 Government hopes of deporting dozens of terror suspects to their home countries suffered a serious setback today with the European court of human rights ruling against one such attempt. The grand chamber of 17 judges at the Strasbourg court found unanimously that an attempt by Italy to send a man back to [read more] |
| The "Terror-ization" of Refugees |
| on 19 Dec 2006 by Brian |
| Original author: Parastou Hassouri Source: TomPaine.com URL: [link] Date: December 19, 2006 Refugee Or Terrorist? Parastou Hassouri is an Iranian-American human rights lawyer working for Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA). When Abdihakim was nine, Somalia's longtime military dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, fled the country-plunging it into a civil war that uprooted millions and rages to this day. Abdihakim's family spent the following years [read more] |
| Universities urged to spy on Muslims (UK) |
| on 17 Oct 2006 by Brian |
| Original author: Vikram Dodd Source: The Guardian UK URL: [link] Date: October 16, 3006 Lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on "Asian-looking" and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence, the Guardian has learned. They will be told to inform on students to special branch because the government believes campuses have become "fertile [read more] |
| The mysterious case of the disappearing 'terror' plots (UK) |
| on 12 Sep 2006 by Brian |
| Original author: Norm Dixon Source: The Green Left Weekly URL: [link] Date: September 13, 2006 Readers of Britain’s newspapers are regularly accosted with blood-curdling banner headlines screaming of the “thwarting” of potentially catastrophic “terror plots”, of “Islamic fanatics” being apprehended in daring midnight raids. “Chilling” details, “revealed” by anonymous police and government “sources”, underline why “we” must accept a “trade-off” between civil liberties and [read more] |
| EU probe says 14 nations colluded with CIA |
| on 08 Jun 2006 by Brian |
| Original author: Jan Sliva (AP) Source: The Globe and Mail URL: [link] Date: June 6, 2006 PARIS — The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons said Wednesday that 14 European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a \"spider\'s web\" of human rights abuses, singling out Romania and Poland as likely dropping-off points for detainees. Swiss senator Dick Marty provided no concrete [read more] |
| Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism |
on 06 Apr 2006 by Brian  {PDF=create pdf file of the content item^plugin:content.357} |
| Original author: Nigel Morris and Jonathan Brown Source: The Independent (UK) URL: [link] Date: April 6, 2006 Two grandmothers from Yorkshire face up to a year in prison after becoming the first people to be arrested under the Government's latest anti-terror legislation. Helen John, 68, and Sylvia Boyes, 62, both veterans of the Greenham Common protests 25 years ago, were arrested on Saturday after deliberately [read more] |
