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 February 2010, Edinburgh - Atif Siddique (left) walks free after the Appeal Court quashes a conviction under the Terrorism Act 2000. |
Anti-Terrorism Laws: Unjust PowersDo anti-terror laws make us safer? Whom do they protect? SACC has been campaigning since 2003 for the repeal of Britain's 'anti-terror' laws. Now the Government says it intends to carry out a review of the laws. But will it go far enough? Since 2000, 'anti-terror' laws have been officially justified as necessary to protect us from global threats to our lives. Yet these laws have political aims and consequences... Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers serving the politics of fear |
Latest NewsReview of terror laws is welcome - SACC statement
20 July 2010 MSP asks US to back inquiry into Pan Am 103 crash
20 July 2010 Government announces review of counter-terrorism powers
14 July 2010 Racist attacks in Renfrewshire
08 July 2010 |
Background and CommentI'm a warmonger, get me out of here
by Lindsey German, 21 July 2010 Lockerbie deserves a meaningful inquiry
by Jim Swire, 20 July 2010 Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers serving the politics of fear
16 July 2010 Britain's Torture files
16 July 2010 Coalition faces first test on human rights
by Paul Donovan, 14 July 2010 Babar Ahmad - the war on terror's forgotten victim speaks
08 July 2010 |
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Justice for Aafia SiddiquiDr Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani Citizen who has lived and studied in America. She is currently Prisoner Number 90279-054 in New York's Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. 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 prison. Urgent action -
Demand Aafia Siddiqui's immediate repatriation to Pakistan |
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The Guantánamo Justice Centre
The Guantánamo Justice Centre is a humanitarian foundation that aims to support and protect the rights of Guantánamo victims.
Former Guantánamo prisoners are the founder members of the Centre.
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About SACCSACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a grassroots group that campaigns against Britain's anti-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's National Guantanamo Coalition. |