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| 15 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 aims and consequences.... Click title to read more
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| 30 December 2008 |
Protests across the world have affirmed that despite the huge propaganda offensive which Israel has unleashed , people are rising up with one voice in condemnation of Israel's brutal attack and in active solidarity with its victims – the Palestinians.... Click title to read more
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| 20 December 2008 |
The bitter truth about the occupation of Afghanistan by America and Britain and other NATO countries who never learn their lessons from occupying and destroying an Independent country who never threaten the existence of other countries and nor it attacked their way of life, culture and faiths. ... Click title to read more
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| 07 November 2008 |
The world was watching the American election and the victory of Barack Obama whilst the illegal occupiers in Afghanistan killed yet another 50 innocent Afghans in yet another wedding party and hundreds severely wounded in Kandahar last Monday. ... Click title to read more
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| 05 November 2008 |
Journalists have been barred from Northeast Sri Lanka for more than two years while aerial bombing combined with intense shelling has been driving hundreds of thousands around from village to village and from district to district. ... Click title to read more
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| 03 November 2008 |
The British government has been trying to deport terrorism and national security suspects to countries in which they face a risk of
torture - report by Human Rights Watch... Click title to read more
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| 28 October 2008 |
With the Obama campaign nearing conclusion with the likely prospect of his election and the historic achievement of an African-American becoming US President for the first time, John Wight exposes the reality of America for the thousands of African Americans currently languishing on death row.... Click title to read more
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| 08 October 2008 |
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. ... Click title to read more
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| 02 October 2008 |
AUDIO - Talk on Islamophobia given by Zahid Ali... Click title to read more
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| 29 September 2008 |
The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights says it's wrong to criminalise migration.... Click title to read more
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| 23 September 2008 |
The anti-war demonstration at the Labour Party Conference last Saturday - organised by Stop the War, CND and the British Muslim Initiative - was joined by thousands calling on Gordon Brown to end Britain's participation in the catastrophic conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... Click title to read more
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| 19 September 2008 |
SACC says "Dear Labour, Don't collude in the manufacture of mayhem - dismantle the 'war on terror.'... Click title to read more
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| 09 September 2008 |
Factsheet issued by the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in May 2008. It examines the role played at Abu Ghraib by contractors from two U.S.-based corporations: Titan Corporation/L-3 and CACI International, Inc. CCR says that although Titan/L-3 and CACI employees were directly involved in the torture of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, no employee of either company has been convicted of any offense.... Click title to read more
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| 24 August 2008 |
War in the Caucasus has highlighted the growing danger of war spreading. Seven years after the start of the war on terror, occupation continues to bring misery to Iraq and Afghanistan, but the consequences of the war are spreading. ... Click title to read more
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| 19 August 2008 |
The knives may be out for Gordon Brown, but LIZ DAVIES warns that new Labour's takeover condemns us to more of the same.
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| 17 August 2008 |
I am innocent yet was detained without charge in solitary confinement for days on end. It was a devastating experience... Click title to read more
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| 02 July 2008 |
Yesterday, the High Court in Edinburgh rightly cleared Mr Anwar of contempt. However, the judges were not content to vindicate Mr Anwar's right to free speech. Instead, they criticised him for making "angry and petulant" comments and that they "expected better" of solicitors.... Click title to read more
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| 29 June 2008 |
Turkey's judges are being asked to ban the country's ruling party and its leading politicians. If they want to save democracy they will refuse.... Click title to read more
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| 18 June 2008 |
One hundred and six British lives lost in Afghanistan - a grim milestone that will lead many in Britain to ask: is the mission worth this cost in lives? The answer is very simple and it is a big NO. ... Click title to read more
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| 07 May 2008 |
Defendants rely on their legal representative to advocate their cause. But a trial in Scotland threatens to weaken the case for the defence... Click title to read more
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| 30 April 2008 |
In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating.... Click title to read more
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| 27 April 2008 |
Algeria has become a prime ally of the USA and other governments involved in the "war on terror". Refugees pressured into agreeing to return there are now languishing in prison, despite assurances that their human rights would be respected... Click title to read more
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| 20 April 2008 |
Gordon Brown returns from genuflecting before George Bush and confirming that he, like his predecessor, stands shoulder to shoulder in the continuation of war crimes which have slaughtered hundreds and thousands and driven millions
from their homes.... Click title to read more
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| 17 April 2008 |
Mustapha Taleb, currently an inmate of Long Lartin prison, came to the UK in the 1990s as an asylum-seeker from Algeria. A death sentence hangs over his head if ever he returns home. ... Click title to read more
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| 07 April 2008 |
Attacks on Muslims by politicians and the media have been on the rise since the 9/11 attacks. Now, when author Martin Amis's abusive tirades against Islam are broadcast and published without qualm, Hassan Mahamdallie asks if Islamophobia has become society's acceptable racism.... Click title to read more
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| 03 April 2008 |
The history of thirty years of conflict in Northern Ireland, as it is being written today, might give the impression of a steady progression towards an inevitable and just conclusion. The new suspect community in this country, Muslims, want to know whether their experience today can be compared with that of the Irish in the last third of the 20th century. ... Click title to read more
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| 30 March 2008 |
How can you celebrate? The establishment of the State of Israel sixty years ago was a settler-colonial project that systematically and violently uprooted more than 750 thousand Palestinian Arabs from their lands and homes. ... Click title to read more
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| 15 March 2008 |
I remain in prison to this day, as a political prisoner, held without charge for over seven years.... Click title to read more
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| 13 March 2008 |
Speech given by Alex Fitch at the public meeting Censorship and Resistance in Kurdistan, the Middle East and Britain in Edinburgh on 13 March 2008... Click title to read more
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| 13 March 2008 |
Speech given by Alex Fitch at a meeting on The EU, Turkey and the Kurdish Questionin the Scottish Parliament, 13 March 2008... Click title to read more
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| 03 March 2008 |
Interview with Hussain Al-Samamra, a Palestinian detainee in Britain's Long Lartin Prison... Click title to read more
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