A court has heard that British servicemen, who filmed hundreds of interrogation sessions at “the UK’s Abu Ghraib” prison in Iraq, may be guilty of war crimes. From The Guardian: “Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the facility, operated by a...
Operation Black Vote is running a series of seminars as part of its Community Empowerment Roadshow 2010/2011. The next such will take place in Manchester on Saturday 27 November. The purpose of the seminars is “to increase Black and minority ethnic (BME) awareness of local governance and to...
Joan Smith in her column in The Independent on Sunday last weekend wrote about the Roshonara Choudhry case. Rehearsing the history of movements that have or do use political violence to attain their ideological goals, Smith also adds her usual critique of Islamic dress observed by Muslim women...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, in a written Ministerial statement presented to the House today has announced the Government’s review of Prevent, a strand in its its counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST. The statement reads: “I am pleased to announce today that the Government are formally...
Mark Hendrick MP has sponsored an Early Day Motion on Islamophobia calling on Government “to bring in tighter regulation to tackle this and other forms of religious and racial discrimination.” The EDM has been supported by 25 MPs to date. Read the list of MPs here. Is your MP among...
Security services have reportedly “softened” their support for control orders according to Mark Townsend writing in the Observer. The paper yesterday reported: “In a surprise development, senior Whitehall security sources broke ranks to reveal that MI5 was ‘not wedded’ to keeping the...
Two high court judges have ordered that Phil Woolas’ election as MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth is “void” and have ordered a re-run of the General Election campaign for the constituency. The statement from Mr Justice Nigel Teare said: “In an election address entitled The Examiner,...
The newspapers today relay the sentencing of Roshonara Choudhry for the stabbing of Stephen Timms MP and the transcript of her interview, released by the police, which reveals her apparent radicalization through listening to online lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki. But the news that dominates the...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has today delivered a speech at the Royal United Services Institute on ‘Our response to the terrorist threat’. The Home Secretary spoke on the security threats facing the UK, its wider trend and home grown terrorism. She spoke on how the...
Andrew Gilligan continues to beat his drum on the unsuitability of Lutfur Rahman for the post of Mayor of Tower Hamlets drawing this time on reports that Roshonara Choudhry, the woman found guilty of the attempted murder of Stephen Timms MP yesterday, was ‘self-radicalised’ listening to...
