On Thursday 9 December 2010, two supporters of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) were arrested by Strathclyde police during student protests against education cuts in Glasgow,
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News from 2010
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12 December 2010
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30 November 2010Torture Evidence Appeal Hearing: Tuesday 30 November, Court of Appeal, London, 10am
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29 November 2010Peace in Kurdistan condemns the decision of the court to postpone the ongoing trial of 151 Kurdish politicians and human rights defenders to 13 January 2011
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25 November 2010Immigration minister Damien Green has cancelled a letter forcing Glasgow asylum seekers out of their home
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21 November 2010Scottish Parliament supports Glasgow asylum-seekers whose lives have been turned upside down by the unilateral decision of UKBA to terminate its contract with Glasgow City Council.
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16 November 2010SACC welcomes the news that former Guantanamo prisoners are to be compensated, but deplores the fact that this will halt a civil case that could have revealed the truth about British involvement in torture
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02 November 2010Cameron says the Government's review of counter-terrorism powers is "heading for a f*****g car crash." SACC says it's the Prime Minister's job to keep the review on the road.
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21 October 2010The Diyarbakir 6th High Criminal Court continued hearing suspects in the trial of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)
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18 October 2010A jet owned by a senior executive in the US firm which has bought Liverpool Football Club was chartered by the CIA and used in flights allegedly linked to the rendition of terror suspects.
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17 October 2010An observer delegation consisting of Jeremy Corbyn MP, Hywel Williams MP, Margaret Owen, human rights lawyer, Hugo Charlton, barrister, and lawyers Ali Has and Serife Semsedini, has arrived in Turkey to monitor the trial of 151 Kurdish political activists and human rights defenders which is set to begin in Diyarbakir on 18 October.
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16 October 2010Liberty has warned the Government against draft police guidance that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search without suspicion under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
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15 October 2010CAMPACC's submission on the Terrorist Asset Freezing Etc. Bill to the Joint Committee on Human Rights
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14 October 2010Peace in Kurdistan is deeply alarmed about the threat to Roj TV, the independent Kurdish satellite television station
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14 October 2010The family of a Chinese take-away delivery driver who died after being punched by a teenager said justice had not been done after his killer was detained for five years.
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13 October 2010AN Indian shop assistant suffered a broken jaw after being beaten by a gang of racist thugs when he tried to stop them attacking a woman.
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12 October 2010Turkey's Parliament passed a bill extending the military's mandate to conduct cross-border operations in northern Iraq against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for another year.
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11 October 2010Interview with Dr. Binayak Sen and Dr. Ilina Sen
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10 October 2010Tragedy of a toddler's death and his family's quest for answers
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07 October 2010Two British filmmakers, who highlighted the plight of a Jordanian 'terror suspect' being detained without trial in the UK, could face legal action.
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06 October 2010SACC has published its contribution to the Government's review of counter-terrorism powers.
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04 October 2010The Supreme Court asked the U.S. government for its views about a lawsuit claiming that employees of CACI and L-3 Communications took part in the torture and abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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02 October 2010Police in Glasgow are treating an attack on a Somali man by a gang of youths as racially motivated.
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16 September 2010As Foreign Secretary William Hague pledges to re-establish a central role for human rights in British foreign policy, the Coalition has adopted Labour policy on Guantánamo Bay by refusing to help former UK resident Ahmed Belbacha.
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15 September 2010UN experts have rapped the United States for its failure to prosecute private security personnel over violations in Iraq, citing a case against CACI and L-3 Services which was dismissed after the firms claimed immunity.
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14 September 2010On Thursday 9 September 2010 MPs voted in the parliament for the first time on the war in Afghanistan.
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13 September 2010Peace in Kurdistan reiterates its position that Turkey's democratization ultimately requires a completely new, civilian constitution and, perhaps even more importantly, a democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
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10 September 2010MEMBERS of the Scottish Afghan Society have staged a protest outside Edinburgh's US Consulate over the decision not to stop an American church from burning the Quran on the anniversary of September 11.
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10 September 2010Witness Against Torture, a grassroots organization dedicated to closing Guantanamo and ending US torture, condemns the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Mohamed, et. al. versus Jeppesen DataPlan, Inc. to accept the "states-secret privilege" as grounds for dismissing lawsuits brought by victims of CIA rendition and of torture
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08 September 2010Former detainee Faraj Hassan died in a tragic accident on the morning of 16 August 2010.
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08 September 2010The government today opened up Britain's extradition arrangements for review
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20 July 2010The review of counter-terrorism powers announced last week by Home Secretary Theresa May is very welcome. It is to be hoped that it will mark the beginning of the end for the regime of oppressive anti-terrorism laws enacted by the Labour Government over the last decade.
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20 July 2010MSP Christine Grahame has challenged the US Government to support a "thorough and comprehensive" international inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Pan Am 103 crash
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14 July 2010Home 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.
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08 July 2010TWO allegedly racist attacks have brought shame on a Renfrewshire town and village.
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08 July 2010Secrecy risks tarnishing human rights, fairness and the rule of law
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08 July 2010Liberty welcomes demise of section 44 stop and search after long fight through Court
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08 July 2010The pledged inquiry into British complicity in torture cannot serve justice while Guantanamo prisoner Shaker Aamer remains in detention, human rights campaigners insisted on Thursday.
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13 May 2010Dr 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.
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23 April 2010Amnesty International has condemned the actions of the Slovak authorities for forcibly returning Mustapha Labsi on 19 April from Slovakia to Algeria
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16 March 2010The Annual Report of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) confirms that a Government propaganda unit set up to tackle terrorism intervened to influence British public opinion during the Israeli attack on Gaza last year.
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05 March 2010Lance 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
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10 February 2010SACC welcomes Tuesday's decision by the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh to quash Mohammed Atif Siddique's conviction under the controversial Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000,
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28 January 2010Afghanistan 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
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14 January 2010SACC welcomes Tuesday's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that Stop and Search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights