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SACC campaigns against Britain's terrorism acts, against torture and arbitrary imprisonment, against laws that criminalise political and community activity. SACC stands up for human rights and civil liberties.


Scottish Census

CACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was contracted to carry out key work for Scotland's 2011 Census. CACI have so far blocked all attempts by former Abu Ghraib prisoners to hold them to account in US courts for their actions in Iraq.

Countless Scots either refused to fill in their census form in protest, or sent in partially completed forms. Refusing to answer census questions is a criminal offence under the Census Act 1920. Almost no one has so far been prosecuted in connection with the 2011 census. Just one woman is being victimised. Barbara Dowling is being charged under the Census Act, accused of not filling in her census form properly. Please support her by coming along to Glasgow Sheriff Court for a 10am start on Thursday 26 January.
More information: Victimised over Scottish Census

News about Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Evidence against alleged Census refusers may be inadmissible, says Procurator Fiscal

26 January 2012
In a surprise development could undermine census trials throughout the UK, the trial of a Glasgow woman was adjourned at the request of the Procurator...

Scotland's First Census Prosecution - Drop the charges, says SACC

24 January 2012
The first person to be tried for non-cooperation with Scotland's 2011 census will be appearing in Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday....

Scottish man wanted in the US is victim of a stitch-up

20 January 2012
SACC says it is disappointed by the decision earlier this week by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to allow the extradition of a...

Release all the Guantánamo prisoners now

11 January 2012
Today, the 10th anniversary of Guantánamo's inauguration, SACC is calling for the immediate release of all the prisoners still held there...

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Red hands, Troops out of Afghanistan Demo, London

Troops out of Afghanistan Demo, London, 20 Nov 2010

Know your rights - Stand up for Civil Liberties

The police are trampling on our civil liberties in an effort to strangle resistance to the cuts. Use your civil liberties or lose them.
Civil liberties - Your Rights: support and information


Justice for Phillip Harkins - US extradition victim

Phillip Harkins Phillip Harkins is a 32-year old Scottish man facing extradition to the US on a murder charge. The European Court of Human Rights rejected his appeal on 17 January 2012. The evidence against Phillip is flimsy. He has been in jail in London since February 2003. His human rights have been violated by callous treatment in Britain, and will be further violated in the US if his extradition goes ahead.
Phillip Harkins - US extradition victim


Glasgow Defence Campaign
Defend Civil Liberties - Oppose political policing

The Glasgow Defence Campaign has been established to oppose political policing and defend democratic rights and civil liberties in the struggle against the cuts in Glasgow.

Glasgow Defence Campaign - No to political policing

Background and Comment
about civil liberties, human rights & the war on terror

Racism or Islamophobia: it's all damn prejudice!

by Julia Davidson, 05 January 2012
The 1999 Macpherson Report into the death of the British teenager Steven Lawrence has become synonymous with institutional racism. In 2012 detainees Shaker Aamer and...

Ten years of shame - Close Guantanamo

by Edinburgh STWC, 04 January 2012
This month sees the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo bay prison camp. President Obama said he would close the camp but he has not....

Ten Years On - Internment and the erosion of civil liberties

by Richard Haley, 01 January 2012
Ten years of arbitrary punishment, racism and the erosion of civil liberties...

Human Rights in Tibet - are climbers turning a blind eye?

by Billy Briggs, 11 November 2011
A human rights group has condemned mountaineers for implicitly condoning the Chinese occupation of Tibet by holding a conference this month that “airbrushes” Tibetan peaks...

Babar Ahmad – the buck stops with Theresa May

by Richard Haley, 11 October 2011
Freedom for Babar Ahmad - the buck stops with Theresa May...

Demonising the Fly-in: Welcome to Palestine, Unwelcome to Israel

by Les Levidow, 27 July 2011
Les Levidow was given free accommodation and food by the Israeli government during 8-12 July, in an unusual holiday package booked via Easyjet. Here's his...

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Do you write about the Himalaya? Then write responsibly. Unrest in eastern districts of Tibet is continuing. Human rights abuses by the Chinese Government are continuing. It's time to call a spade a spade, and to call Tibet, Tibet.
Tibet, China and the Himalaya

End Prisoner Isolation

StopIsolation - A new international initiative to end long-term solitary confinement and prisoner isolation. Add your support to the statement.


Justice for Talha Ahsan

Bool launch - Talha Ahsan's poems Talha Ahsan has been imprisoned without trial for over four years while fighting an attempt to extradite him to the US to face "terrorism" charges. Talha Ahsan has never visited the US and says that any case against him should be heard in Britain. He denies any involvement with terrorism.

His extradition to the likelihood of long-term solitary confiment in the US would violate the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.



Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani Citizen who has lived and studied in America. In 2003 Aafia "disappeared" along with her three children while visiting her mother in Pakistan. She says that she suffered torture and abuse in US-run secret prisons. In 2008 she was taken to the US to stand trial. In March 2010 she was convicted, on flimsy evidence, of "assaulting and attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan" while she was in custody there. She injured no one during her alleged action. In September 2010 she was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

About SACC

SACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a civil liberties and human rights group based in Scotland that campaigns against Britain's terrorism acts and offers solidarity to the communities most affected by them. SACC is affiliated to the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, to the Stop the War Coalition, to Unite Against Fascism and to the UK National Guantanamo Coalition.

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