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'Terrible LIFE!!!!!'
By Imad Mahmoud, Khalid, Esraa, Haneen and Ala'a Mahmoud Abu Rideh
The children of Mahmoud Abu Rideh speak out about their experience of living with a control order.
2 July 2009 (1623 words)
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Being married to a control order detainee
By Dina Al Jnidi
The wife of a control order detainee describes the trauma the family has lived through and appeals for the right for her husband, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, to be allowed to leave the UK.
2 July 2009 (2105 words)
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White supremacist planned racist bombings
The Old Bailey in London has heard how Neil Lewington, a White supremacist arrested by chance at a railway station in Suffolk, was 'on the cusp' of launching a racist terrorism campaign.
30 June 2009 (external article)
Proscription leads to jail for 'decent man'
A packed meeting of the Bar Human Rights Committee on 16 June heard Mark Muller QC and Gareth Peirce describe how the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 forced the jailing of someone the judge said was a 'thoroughly decent man'.
18 June 2009 (427 words)
France: academic freedom under threat
A campaign to safeguard intellectual freedom has been formed in France to support a researcher who faces disciplinary action in connection with his work on Islamophobia.
18 June 2009 (1093 words)
guardian Racially-balanced statistics driving most police terror stops
Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has said that thousands of people are being wrongfully stopped and searched under anti-terror legislation in order to provide a racial balance to official statistics.
18 June 2009 (external article)
J4NW10
The campaign for Justice for the North West Ten is gaining momentum across the country.
11 June 2009 (511 words)
No to secret evidence
The House of Lords' ruling on control orders is a victory for the campaign against secret evidence, but the ruling has yet to be applied to deportations and other areas.
11 June 2009 (653 words)
south devon herald express Terror law hits student trade
Torbay's language schools have estimated that they could lose up to £1 million a year because British embassies outside Europe are refusing student visas in an attempt to crack down on suspected terrorists entering the UK as students.
11 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Blackmailer of Muslim student faces jail
A Devon shopkeeper has been found guilty of three counts of deception and three of blackmail after convincing a Muslim student that she could be prosecuted for allegedly supporting terrorists.
9 June 2009 (external article)
northern echo Suspected racist extremists in anti-terror arrests
Anti-terror police have detained Ian and Nicky Davison, a father and son believed to be involved in a far-right White supremacist group in County Durham, on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
3 June 2009 (external article)
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Kenan Malik: journey of an ex-anti-racist
Kenan Malik's latest book From Fatwa To Jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy distorts anti-racist history and plays into the hands of today's anti-Muslim politics.
1 June 2009 (1521 words)
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The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen
By Liz Fekete
Below we reproduce the introduction to the latest edition of the European Race Bulletin.
28 May 2009 (1654 words)
guardian Police officer cleared of deceiving Menezes inquest
A Special Branch surveillance officer has been cleared by the Independent Police Complaints Commission of 'deliberate deception', after he admitted tampering with his evidence during the inquest into the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
27 May 2009 (external article)
guardian Government rejects time limits on control orders
The Home Office has rejected appeals for a two-year limit on control orders for terror suspects, claiming that a definite end-date would pose too many risks.
22 May 2009 (external article)
independent Home secretary warned of 'blackmailing' campaign against Muslims
It has been reported that the Home Secretary was informed of a possible MI5 campaign that threatened and intimidated members of the Muslim community nine months ago, but she allegedly refused to intervene.
22 May 2009 (external article)
independent MI5 accused of blackmailing British Muslims
Five Muslim community workers who work with disadvantaged youth in London have accused MI5 of waging a racist and Islamophobic campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.
21 May 2009 (external article)
grimsby telegraph Grimsby racist terrorist loses court appeal
Nathan Worrell has lost his appeal against a prison sentence of seven years and three months. He was jailed in December after being found guilty of possessing articles for terrorism purposes and of a racially-aggravated public order offence.
18 May 2009 (external article)
bbc news Government drops secret inquest plans
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced that the government is to drop plans to hold secret inquests without juries.
18 May 2009 (external article)
independent Many anti-terror arrests and few convictions
New figures released by the government have revealed that most of those arrested under anti-terror laws have not been convicted of any offences.
14 May 2009 (external article)
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