Issam Hijjawi has been on hunger strike in Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland since 16 September. He must be released from prison and the charges against him must be dropped
News
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24 September 2020
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04 September 2020
SACC is dismayed at the prosecution of Palestinian doctor Issam Hijjawi Basalat under a controversial provision of the UK’s anti-terrorism legislation.
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13 July 2020
On Sunday 12 July Black Lives Matter held a protest outside the Scottish Parliament in solidarity with Scotland's Sudanese people against racism and the hostile environment.
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13 July 2020
SACC is one of the organisations supporting an open letter
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02 July 2020
A group of refugees and asylum-seekers from Glasgow have set up a new campaign in response to the deep wounds the city has suffered as a direct result of inhumane treatment of people who seek asylum in the UK
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27 June 2020
SACC gives a cautious welcome to the forthcoming public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh. But we believe that the inquiry’s remit is only just wide enough for the task it must confront. If the inquiry is to succeed it will need to exercise its remit with boldness and determination.
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05 June 2020
Statement on the proposed BlackLivesMatter demonstrations in Scotland, issued by Aamer Anwar and Kadie Johnson.
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08 April 2020
The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act contains measures that cause us serious concern. We are also remain gravely concerned over Scottish Government proposals, not included in the Act but potentially still in the pipeline, to abolish jury trials. SACC is calling for 5 steps to be taken to set the situation right.
SACC Statement on the arrest of Issam Hijjawi
SACC is dismayed at the prosecution of Issam Hijjawi Basalat, a Palestinian doctor living in Edinburgh, under a particularly controversial provision of the UK’s draconian anti-terrorism legislation. We are dismayed still further by the involvement of MI5 in the investigation.
Background & Comment
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The new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill 2020 will not enhance public security.
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by Richard Haley
Badreddin Abadlla Adam was shot dead by police after he attacked people with a knife. There may be circumstances in which firearms are the correct response to a knife, but they will be very rare. So what happened?
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by SACC
An outine of lockdown law in Scotland and your rights.
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by Richard Haley
On 21 March the Scottish Government announced the terms of reference for the public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh. It remains to be seen whether Sheku Bayoh’s family will finally obtain justice.
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by Richard Haley
Police forces around the UK have been categorising campaigners as "domestic extremists". Political policing has to stop. The starting point is to scrap the UK's terrorism laws and counter-extremism policies
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by Richard Haley
Otherstani is a newly-released animation of a poem by Talha Ahsan. Talha wrote the poem during his time in prison where he spent 8 years across the UK and the United States without trial.
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Speech by holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer at a public meeting in the Augustine Church, Edinburgh on Saturday 23 January 2010.
"Only people who are already dehumanised due to indoctrination and propaganda are able to dehumanise others. These occupation forces are not really human. A great part of the Israeli population, not all of them, is dehumanised after three generations"
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by Richard Haley
Speech at No War With Iran protest organised by Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition on the evening of 9 January 2020. We need to demand that British and US troops get right out of the Middle East, right now. And while they’re at it, covert operatives and private military contractors – mercenaries to you and me – need to get out too.
