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20 July 2010

MSP asks US to back inquiry into Pan Am 103 crash

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... Click title to read more

14 July 2010

Government announces review of counter-terrorism powers

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 civil liberties.... Click title to read more

08 July 2010

Racist attacks in Renfrewshire

TWO allegedly racist attacks have brought shame on a Renfrewshire town and village.... Click title to read more

08 July 2010

Torture inquiry - statement from London Guantanamo Campaign

Secrecy risks tarnishing human rights, fairness and the rule of law... Click title to read more

08 July 2010

Demise of section 44 stop and search - Statement from Liberty

Liberty welcomes demise of section 44 stop and search after long fight through Court... Click title to read more

08 July 2010

Shaker Aamer 'must be freed' for torture probe

The pledged inquiry into British complicity in torture cannot serve justice while Guantanamo prisoner Shaker Aamer remains in detention, human rights campaigners insisted on Thursday.... Click title to read more

13 May 2010

Crown Office must justify decision not to prosecute Blair," says MSP

Dr Bill Wilson MSP (West of Scotland, SNP) has expressed frustration at the Crown Office's response to his latest letter to them. The letter suggested that Tony Blair could be prosecuted in Scotland on the basis that the invasion of Iraq could be seen as a crime of aggression under Scots law.... Click title to read more

23 April 2010

Expulsion of Mustapha Labsi Violated International Law, says AI

Amnesty International has condemned the actions of the Slovak authorities for forcibly returning Mustapha Labsi on 19 April from Slovakia to Algeria... Click title to read more

05 March 2010

Joe Glenton gets 9 months in jail

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton has been sent to jail for his refusal to fight the war in Afghanistan which he believes is unjustified and a senseless loss of life... Click title to read more

28 January 2010

Scottish Afghan Society rejects Conference on Afghanistan

Afghanistan does not need a conference where third parties who are not even Afghans decide the future of 32 million Afghans, says theScottish Afghan Society says ... Click title to read more


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