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UCU Scotland condemns the presence on the Stand Up To Racism march on 18th March 2023 of groups that defend Israel's racist colonisation of Palestine and says it will suspend all financial and other support to SUTR until explicitly pro-Israel groups are excluded

Scottish Friends of Palestine says it will boycott the anti-racism demonstration scheduled for Saturday 18 March 2023 in Glasgow because of the presence on it of pro-Israel, racist groups.

The Northern Ireland Divisional Court has been asked to intervene in a preliminary inquiry into terrorism charges against a Palestinian doctor in order to clarify the part played by MI5 in the case.

Court proceedings in Northern Ireland have highlighted the activity of a man said to be an MI5 agent.

The Annual Islamophobia Conference co-organised by IHRC, SACC and DIN, this year taking place online from 9 – 11 December.

Dr Issam Bassalat, a Palestinian Scottish doctor who is facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland as a result of what his lawyer calls "entrapment", will be appearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Friday 10 June to fight for his right to practise medicine.

SACC supports the proposal to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City but we not affiliated with the newly-formed Edinburgh-Gaza Twinning Association.

Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat was released on bail on Monday 13 December.

There were heated exchanges in a court in Northern Ireland on Monday over an ongoing bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat, who is in Maghaberry Prison awaiting trial on "terrorism" charges. Dr Bassalat has suffered a heart attack in prison.  The court heard that he is at "substantial excess risk of further cardio-vascular events, including death."

A court in Northern Ireland heard today, Wednesday 13 October, that Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat has suffered a heart attack. Dr Bassalat was due to appear by video link at a case management hearing at Dungannon Magistrates Court, along with nine other defendants charged as a result of Operation Arbacia.

Dr Issam Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian man facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland, has issued an appeal for human rights organisations to monitor his case.

Issam Bassalat has finally had the surgery he needs for his spinal problem. The operation appears to have been completely successful and has brought him great relief. But the circumstances surrounding the operation are very troubling.

Letter to the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish Government calling on ministers to take urgent steps to facilitate medical treatment for Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian prisoner in Maghaberry Prison.

A bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat has been rejected. Issam Bassalat is a Palestinian doctor from Edinburgh. He is in severe pain as a result of a spinal injury and would have sought treatment in Scotland if his application had been granted.

"This inquiry must be prepared to go where no inquiry has gone before", says Aamer Anwar following the opening of the public inquiry into that death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh

Sheku Bayoh’s family welcome the statement by Humza Yousaf on Lord Bracadale’s Public Inquiry into the death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh.

Statement issued at the start of the Lockerbie appeal by appeal lawyer Aamer Anwar on behalf of his clients, the family of the late Al-Megrahi and some of the families of the British victims.

A Palestinian man held on remand in Maghaberry Prison has been in severe pain for weeks and now needs crutches as a result of the prison's neglect of his medical needs. A friend has described his treatment as tantamount to "torture."

SACC and other concerned groups and individuals have written to the Governor of Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland, urging him to arrange specialist medical attention for Dr Issam Hijawi Bassalat.

Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat's application for bail was rejected by the High Court in Belfast yesterday