Background and Comment
about civil liberties, human rights & the war on terror
by Ashfaq Ahmad, Julia O'Dwyer and others, 28 April 2012
Open letter to the Prime Minister, published as an advertisement in the New Statesman...
by Fahad Ansari, 17 April 2012
Lord Carlile has made a number of comments about Babar Ahmad which seem legally questionable and contradictory to opinions he has publicly stated in the...
by Richard Haley, 17 April 2012
Babar Ahmad, Gary McKinnon, Abu Hamza and other British citizens wanted by the US would be a lot better off if they were French France...
by Imran Azam, 17 April 2012
A former opposition Bahraini MP has urged the politicians and the Scottish public not to forget the violence in his homeland....
13 April 2012
The Guardian welcomed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights to extradite Babar Ahmad and others to the probability of years of solitary...
by Richard Haley, 12 April 2012
A setback for efforts to end supermax-style isolation; a missed opportunity to build case law from the international recognition that solitary confinement is wrong...
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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.
Justice for Phillip Harkins - US extradition victim
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
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
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