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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 Powers

Do 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

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Review of terror laws is welcome - SACC statement

20 July 2010
The review of counter-terrorism powers announced last week by Home Secretary Theresa May is very welcome. It is to be hoped that it will mark...

MSP asks US to back inquiry into Pan Am 103 crash

20 July 2010
MSP Christine Grahame has challenged the US Government to support a "thorough and comprehensive" international inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Pan Am 103 crash...

Government announces review of counter-terrorism powers

14 July 2010
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced a rapid review looking at which security powers could be scaled back in order to restore the balance of...

Racist attacks in Renfrewshire

08 July 2010
TWO allegedly racist attacks have brought shame on a Renfrewshire town and village....

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Background and Comment

I'm a warmonger, get me out of here

by Lindsey German, 21 July 2010
The message from the Kabul Conference on 20 July, attended by the US and its allies waging war in Afghanistan, was clear. This war is...

Lockerbie deserves a meaningful inquiry

by Jim Swire, 20 July 2010
"I welcome any intervention over Lockerbie that seeks genuinely to expose any aspect of the truth" says Jim Swire...

Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers serving the politics of fear

16 July 2010
Since 2000 several 'anti-terror' laws have been officially justified as necessary to protect us from global threats to our lives. Yet these laws have political...

Britain's Torture files

16 July 2010
Documents released on 13 July 2010 in the Binyam Mohamed civil court case reveal that then-Prime Minister Tony Blair personally overruled the Foreign and Commonwealth...

Coalition faces first test on human rights

by Paul Donovan, 14 July 2010
Paul Donovan weighs up what the review of the Prevention of Terrorism could bring...

Babar Ahmad - the war on terror's forgotten victim speaks

08 July 2010
In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells the Idependent's Robert Verkaik that he is...

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Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

Dr 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

Who Is Aafia Siddiqui: Terrorist Or Government Pawn? - Background from US Defense Lawyer John Floyd and paralegal Billy Sinclair


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About SACC

SACC - 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.

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