News from 2011

On International Human Rights Day, SACC is calling for a ban on solitary confinement and prisoner isolation

SACC accuses US ambassador Louis Susman of "crude bullying" in his statement to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday

Bar Human Rights Committee tells Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan thet the arrest of 51 lawyers is a ‘grave violation of every human rights treaty to which Turkey is a party’

Solitary confinement violates the Declaration of Human Rights. SACC is contacting the governments of Britain, the USA,France, Germany, Turkey and Australia asking them to take action to eliminate long-term solitary confinement and isolation of prisoners.

United Nations independent experts voiced grave concern over reports of heavy security measures, in and around the area of the Tibetan Buddhist Kirti monastery

As unrest continues in eastern districts of Tibet, SACC asks the UK's Alpine Club to urge mountaineers to report honestly and responsibly on places that they visit

CACI has won its battle for immunity from US law.

Britain's police forces must get their guns off our streets. Police violence started this month's riots, but police forces across England are now using any excuse they can find to get their weapons out.

The London Guantánamo Campaign is concerned about the involvement in the upcoming UK-wide Census of two private companies that were contracted to carry out coercive prisoner interrogations at the notorious US military detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, Iraq.

Newroz, the ancient festival that falls on the 21st March, represents hope and renewal for the Kurdish people.

SACC says Scotland's Registrar General must apologise for misrepresenting census contractor's role in human rights abuses

Dr Bill Wilson MSP (SNP) condemned the degrading treatment of whistleblowers today while attempting to get the Scottish Government to acknowledge the importance of WikiLeaks

SACC says that the Scottish Government should make an 11th-hour U-turn over the involvement ob Abu Ghraib firm CACI in the Scottish census

The UK government is accused of misleading the High Court to prevent a full public inquiry into allegations of abuse by British troops in Iraq.

Following the revelation that US army whistleblower Bradley Manning is a UK citizen, SACC says that the British Government must demand that the US immediately cease its torture by solitary confinement of Manning.

SACC response to the announcement of the results of the UK government's counter-terrorism review.

Ilina Sen, wife of jailed doctor and human rights defender Binayak Sen, send a message to supporters on India's Republic Day

A letter from Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt reveals that the British government is unwilling to challenge the US over the continuing US detention of Shaker Aamer