The Guardian’s Defence and Security blog carries an article by Richard Norton-Taylor on the Justice and Security Bill and its proposals to extend ‘closed material procedures’ (CMPs) or ‘secret trials’ to civil courts. The House of Lords is due to vote on the bill next week. Norton-Taylor...
The media has widely reported (see BBC News, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Mail) on the appeals court’s ruling on Monday rejecting the Home Secretary’s case for deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan. The Special Immigration Appeal Commission (SIAC) ruled that Abu Qatada...
BBC News reports guilty plea entered by Grant Robertson at Dundee Sheriff Court for racially aggravated assault after he threw a sword at three Muslim men who were fleeing a fire. From the BBC: “A Dundee man hurled a sword at three Muslim men as they stood outside a block of flats after escaping...
The Guardian reports on the speech given by the chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord David Hunt, to the Society of Editors annual conference in Belfast in which he appeals against the introduction of statutory press regulation. Lord Hunt argued that the entire press should not be...
The Leicester Mercury and Asian Image newspapers reports on the successful business venture by a Muslim medical student at Leicester University challenging popular misconceptions about Islam and Muslim through T-shirts bearing slogans. The Leicester Mercury interviews Umair, the man behind the...
The Guardian carries an article on a report published by the Joint Committee on Human Rights regarding the government’s controversial Justice and Security Bill. The bill contains proposals to extend ‘closed material procedures’ (CMP), otherwise known as secret trials, to civil court...
BBC News and local media (see here and here) have reported on protests held in Norwich over the weekend by the EDL and its opponents, marching under the banner, ‘We Are Norwich’. Four people were arrested, three of whom were charged, whilst one man was cautioned for a public order offence. From...
The Independent Voices blog has published an article by French journalist, Marie Dhumieres, reflecting on the way that Islamophobia has become entrenched in the French psyche and the trials that France faces in challenging negative stereotypes of Muslims and Islam. Dhumieres points to a recent...
The Guardian today publishes a letter signed by forty-two MPs and two peers backing some form of statutory regulation of the press. The signatories claim that “current proposal put forward by the newspaper industry would lack independence” and “risks being an unstable model destined to...
Sadhbh Walshe on the Guardian’s Comment is Free blog covers the double standards on display in the Home Secretary’s decision to extradite five British Muslims to the US whilst blocking that of Gary MacKinnon – despite the similarities between his case and that of one of the Muslim men...
