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...
In light of the fatal Norway attacks which took place on 22nd July 2011, investigations into the background and motives of Anders Behring Breivik have sought to shed light on the ideology which drove him to commit such an atrocity. Breivik had broadly justified his acts in the name of...
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...
The Metro newspaper yesterday reported on another publicity stunt by Muslims Against Crusades, one of the utmost disrespect – to engage in a “noisy protest” as the world marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a minute’s silence. Anjem Choudary, spokesperson for MAC told...
The Guardian reported yesterday on the involvement of American firms in the CIA’s secret rendition programme. Evidence has emerged of collaboration in light of one firm suing another over fees. The matter, as The Guardian describes it illustrates “a world in which the “war on...
The former head of MI5, Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller has attacked several aspects of British foreign policy in the context of the ‘war on terror’, The Guardian reports “Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, Securing Freedom, she made clear she believed the UK and US...
Last week’s JC revisited a story from the previous week concerning a DfID video in which the Minister for International Development, Alan Duncan MP, describes the illegal wall constructed by Israel in the Occupied West Bank as a “land-grab”. The video, which appeared on the DfID website,...
Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, responds in the Guardian today to the article by Nina Power in Tuesday’s edition, ‘Let the EDL racists march’. Rahman argues that “It is right to ban the English Defence League’s march”.
Monday’s Guardian reported on the implementation of the new Prevent strategy on university campuses claiming lecturers and university staff were being asked to “inform the police about Muslim students who are depressed or isolated.” From the paper: “University staff including lecturers,...
