News 2009 |
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| 30 December 2009 |
A further 24 people have been arrested in Turkey, in the course of raids against pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party... Click title to read more
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| 26 December 2009 |
More than 80 members of the Peace and Democracy Party have been arrested in Turkey, including mayors and former members of parliament.... Click title to read more
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| 15 November 2009 |
A victory for the people of Glasgow over “racism, fascism and the Scottish Defence League (SDL)”.... Click title to read more
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| 15 November 2009 |
No to NATO demo in pictures... Click title to read more
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| 24 October 2009 |
Demonstrators gathered outside BBC offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee to protest against the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin onto Question Time.... Click title to read more
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| 20 October 2009 |
Activists in the Basque Country, Spain, have been arrested on he charge of being the political leadership of the banned Batasuna Party... Click title to read more
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| 19 October 2009 |
We, the peace group acting on the historical initiative of Mr. Abdullah Ocalan, come to Turkey to contribute to a true basis for peace.... Click title to read more
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| 30 September 2009 |
Metropolitan Police Service apologises for unlawful arrest... Click title to read more
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| 26 September 2009 |
Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police have said that permission would not be granted to the Scottish Defence League to protest.... Click title to read more
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| 19 September 2009 |
Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), has composed a 160 pages "road map" of what he believes will lead to a solution of the Kurdish question.... Click title to read more
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| 12 September 2009 |
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit against CACI International that accused the firm's employees of taking part in the torture and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.... Click title to read more
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| 29 August 2009 |
UK Tamil Diaspora launch a "continuous campaign" to free people illegally detained bt Sri Lanka... Click title to read more
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| 14 August 2009 |
Stop the War calls on trade unions and other organisations to support a national demonstration against the war in Afghanistan... Click title to read more
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| 03 July 2009 |
The Appeal Court hearing into the conviction and sentencing of Mohammed Atif Siddique finished yesterday, Thursday 3 July... Click title to read more
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| 17 June 2009 |
The Crown Office have today confirmed that they will not be bringing charges against CACI, the US based company contracted to carry out the 2011 Scottish census who have been accused of torture, abuse and war crimes.... Click title to read more
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| 17 June 2009 |
The money spent on informers by Scotland's two largest police forces has soared in the last eight years, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) ... Click title to read more
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| 16 June 2009 |
Analysis: Edinburgh's Procurator Fiscal has been given a file on CACI, the controversial company awaded a contract for the Scottish census... Click title to read more
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| 12 June 2009 |
The Law Lords ruling is welcome, but the struggle against secret evidence still has a long way to go.... Click title to read more
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| 09 June 2009 |
The fascist British National Party (BNP) has gained its first two seats in the European parliament.... Click title to read more
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| 28 May 2009 |
Human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen walked free from jail in Raipur, India on 25 May 2009 after two years incarceration.... Click title to read more
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| 21 May 2009 |
In the first dawn raid in almost a year, Fatou Felicite Gaye and her 4 year old son, Arouna, were snatched from their Sighthill home last week. Evidence is coming to light that raises disturbing questions about the case.... Click title to read more
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| 09 May 2009 |
On Saturday 9th May, people from across the UK met in Longsight, Manchester and formed a national campaign called 'Justice for the North West 10.... Click title to read more
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| 01 May 2009 |
Report and pictures - Tamils and others gathered outside the Scottish parliament to protest against the genocide of Tamils by the Srilanka Government.... Click title to read more
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| 09 April 2009 |
The Tamil protest against the ongoing civil war and crackdown on Tamil-held areas of Sri Lanka by Sri Lankan government forces entered its fourth continuous day today in Parliament Square, London.... Click title to read more
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| 02 April 2009 |
50,000 households in the west of Edinburgh, Lewis and Harris should have received forms for the official census rehearsal in the last couple of weeks.... Click title to read more
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| 24 March 2009 |
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) condemns the latest government anti-terror proposals, entitled Contest 2, as a dangerous experiment in social engineering.... Click title to read more
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| 19 March 2009 |
A Virginia federal court ruled Wednesday that four former Abu Ghraib detainees who were tortured and later released without charge can sue U.S. military contractor CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CAI), according to their U.S. legal team.... Click title to read more
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| 18 March 2009 |
Babar Ahmad has won £60,000 in damages today from the police over the brutality of the officers who arrested him. ... Click title to read more
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| 18 March 2009 |
Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, announced today that he had just lodged a motion calling for the Rector of the University of Dundee, Craig Murray, to be allowed to present evidence of the UK Government’s involvement in torture to Westminster’s Joint Committee on Human Rights.... Click title to read more
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| 14 March 2009 |
EIGHTEEN SCOTTISH volunteers have successfully delivered 25 tonnes of medicines to Gaza after a marathon 3,700-mile drive through Europe. ... Click title to read more
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| 10 March 2009 |
The Viva Palestina convoy enters Gaza - "We have broken the barriers, we have opened closed borders, we have defied the odds"... Click title to read more
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| 06 March 2009 |
365 days after Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was detained under Anti-Terrorism legislation, ARTICLE 19 joins many people and organisations around the world calling for his immediate release.... Click title to read more
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| 04 March 2009 |
A RACIST thug who repeatedly plunged a knife into a 14-year-old boy as he tried to flee has been locked up for four years and three months.... Click title to read more
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| 02 March 2009 |
An Asian man was slashed with a weapon and racially abused by two thugs while he sat in his car just minutes before a teenage boy was attacked in the same street.... Click title to read more
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| 01 March 2009 |
It's not everyday that you hear that the Home Secretary accused of 'conduct comprehensively unlawful' and has demonstrated 'an abuse of power'... Click title to read more
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| 27 February 2009 |
Charity Commission vindicates Interpal, the British charity which provides humanitarian assistance to Palestinians... Click title to read more
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| 25 February 2009 |
A STUDENT has told how he now fears leaving his home after being beaten and racially abused by a gang of weapon-wielding teens.... Click title to read more
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| 23 February 2009 |
Head of the Tamil Tigers appeals for a political solution for the Tamil people.... Click title to read more
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| 23 February 2009 |
Over 350 people attended or visited the fantastic Stop the War Coalition Scotland Conference on Saturday. Palestine and the recent wave of student occupations in support of Gaza were a major theme of the Conference, with student activists attending from all over the country.... Click title to read more
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| 19 February 2009 |
The three men from the Burnley section of the Viva Palestina convoy who were held on Friday 13th on the M65, alongside the Blackburn Six, have now been released. George Galloway has condemned the actions of Lancashire police.... Click title to read more
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| 17 February 2009 |
Seven men from Blackburn set off today to join the Viva Palestina aid convoy to Gaza. These men were wrongly arrested on Friday evening... Click title to read more
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| 15 February 2009 |
The Observer reveals that The Foreign Office solicited the letter from the US State Department that forced British judges to block the disclosure of CIA files documenting the torture of Binyam Mohamed. SACC says Miliban must resign.... Click title to read more
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| 13 February 2009 |
Yahya al Faifi, a brave trade unionist, is facing deportation back to a tyranny in Saudi Arabia that regularly tortures and "disappears" dissidents... Click title to read more
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| 13 February 2009 |
Binyam Mohamed is dying. He has been held without trial at Guantanamo for four years after confessing - under torture, he says - that he was an al-Qaeda terrorist. ... Click title to read more
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| 12 February 2009 |
Kent Police have arrested a man in Sheffield under the Serious Crime Act
2007 in relation to the recent Indymedia server seizure. H... Click title to read more
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| 10 February 2009 |
Attorneys for torture victims abused in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq asked the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to affirm a lower court ruling letting the lawsuit proceed to trial against CACI International Inc.... Click title to read more
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| 05 February 2009 |
Students at Strathclyde University have ended a 24 hour occupation after wining a series of promises from the University administration... Click title to read more
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| 05 February 2009 |
Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes and Chris Arendt speak at public meetings in Scotland... Click title to read more
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| 05 February 2009 |
Sri Lanka has been given a licence to kill, says British Tamils Forum... Click title to read more
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| 26 January 2009 |
Over 100 supporters of Scottish Stop the War Coalition and Palestinian groups occupied the BBC headquarters in Glasgow on Sunday after the BBC's refusal to show DEC Gaza aid appeal ... Click title to read more
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| 25 January 2009 |
Azzam Tamimi condemns the part played by Egypt and Jordan in Israel's attack on Gaza, but says that the worldwide protests against the attack had been an inspiration to the people of Gaza... Click title to read more
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| 18 January 2009 |
Demonstrators gathered at the Hanover Street branch of Lloyds TSB in Edinburgh on Saturday 17th January 2009 to protest at the banks attack on the charity Interpal... Click title to read more
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| 17 January 2009 |
One of the last British residents to be held at Guantanamo Bay has been told by the US government to prepare for release, according to declassified documents seen by The Independent.... Click title to read more
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| 17 January 2009 |
Dundee police close Gaza stall and harass activists... Click title to read more
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| 15 January 2009 |
A group of Palestinian campaigners accused of disrupting a performance by Israeli musicians in Edinburgh will stand trial in March, a court decided.... Click title to read more
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| 14 January 2009 |
The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national ... Click title to read more
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| 11 January 2009 |
In a speech from Damascus, Khaled Meshaal, Hamas' political leader spoke on the events arising from Israel's ongoing 15-day raid on the Gaza Strip... Click title to read more
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| 10 January 2009 |
Pictures of the Scotland-wide Demonstration in Edinburgh 10 January 2009... Click title to read more
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