Press Releases 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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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