The human rights group, Liberty, has warned the government against draft proposals that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search without suspicion under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The Telegraph reports, “The proposed changes to the Police and...
A letter was published in the Leicester Mercury from Abdulkarim Gheewala, President of the Islamic Education Trust in Leicester, which congratulates the community on their recent handling of the attempts by the EDL to cause tension in the area. It is a great example of positive and proactive...
The Telegraph carried a rather bizarre claim in its article entitled, “Inquiries in to terrorism come at a price.” Referring to the current inquest into the July 7 bombings, the paper observes: “There has long been a suspicion that MI5 knew more about the plotters than it let on and might...
A court heard today that Amir Ali, the tube driver who was accused of intending to fly out to Pakistan and then engage in acts of terrorism, was framed by MI5 after refusing to become a mole for the agency. In their original report on the case, the Evening Standard reported that the court...
You might be forgiven for taking some time to understand just what Nick Cohen‘s rant in an Observer comment piece on Sunday was getting at initially but it becomes clear on further reading that the crux of his argument is that British academics are supposedly too afraid to challenge...
The Guardian reports that Sir Paul Stephenson, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has “privately lobbied the home secretary to make it harder for people to take legal action against his force.” His recommendations include: “Making it harder for people to sue the police for...
“Justice dies when the law is co-opted for political purposes” This is just one of many sobering thoughts in yesterday’s piece by Stuart Jeffries, who talks to Gareth Peirce. Peirce “for over 30 years… has worked in an area where the most vulnerable are often facing the full might of...
ENGAGE welcomed the party manifestos of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties with their assertion that “security measures must be proportional and consistent with liberal democratic values and the rule of law”, and “the best way to combat terrorism is to prosecute...
Ten people were charged with a mix of public order offences, suspicion of assaulting a police officer, possessing an offensive weapon and possessing a controlled substance, following a protest in Leicester by extremist right-wing group, the English Defence League (EDL). The static protest was...
David Cameron’s speech delivered his speech to the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday. Among other things in the opening, he (predictably) played up the role of the Liberal Democrats’ role in the coalition government and talked of voting reform. He then spent a short while discussing...
