The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights have today released their second report on the powers of police to stop and search without reasonable suspicion. The report addresses the risk of the arbitrary use of stop and search powers under current guidelines and their possible breach of human...
On Sunday the world marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and it would seem apposite that newspapers, TV and radio marked the occasion with comment pieces of reflection and rumination on the events of that day and its legacy ten years on. It should come as no surprise...
– A court has heard how a 41 year old male sought to publicise a religiously motivated act of vandalism by asking his daughter to upload a photo of a pig’s head thrown on the site of a future mosque onto Facebook. Wayne Havercroft is said to have been part of a gang who […]
The BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph have all today reported on the findings of the Baha Mousa Inquiry, chaired by retired appeal court judge, Sir William Gage. Mousa (pictured), an Iraqi hotel worker died whilst held in detention at 1st Battalion, the Queen’s...
The House of Lords is due to debate the state of interfaith dialogue in the UK this afternoon. A debate tabled by Lord Parry Mitchell will begin at around 4.30pm. Among the Members of the Lords scheduled to speak in the debate are Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the...
Ten years on from 9/11, the events of that day continue to have ramifications for people all over the world. On Tuesday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a documentary exploring how 9/11 has changed the lives of British Muslims. Presented by Navid Akhtar, the documentary sees him travel around the...
Robert Lambert, whose new book on ‘Countering al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership,’ is out this week, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning on his work with Muslim groups as Head of the Muslim Contact Unit at the Metropolitan Police from 2002...
A letter from ENGAGE to The Independent, in relation to the opinion article by Dominic Lawson in Tuesday’s paper on allegations of the UK’s complicity in torture, has been published today. The letter can be read here.
The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail have all reported on the claims by the leader of the Libyan rebels, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, of UK complicity in his torture by the Gaddafi regime. Belhadj claims he was placed on a CIA rendition flight to Libya in 2004 after...
The BBC reports that 60 EDL supporters were arrested on public order offences on Saturday, the day of the EDL’s Tower Hamlets dem The EDL numbered around 1000 and demonstrated near Aldgate Tube Station under a police escort, whilst a counter-demonstration estimated at around 1500 held a...
