Secret Prisons and Ghost Prisoners in the unwinnable War on Terror
21/10/2008
Clive Stafford Smith is founder and director of Reprieve, working for prisoners on death row and in secret prisons. He reveals British and American involvement in disappearances, torture, and detention without trial |
Terrorist Lists, Proscription, Designation and Human Rights
21/10/2008
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Statewatch and
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), a seminar series, Room SG01 College of Law, 14 Store St, WC1E 7DE. 6:30-8:30pm
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Moazzam Begg - UK Events (Summer 2008)
18/10/2008
Moazzam Begg - UK Events |
Enemy Combatant - An Evening with Moazzam Begg
08/08/2008
Moazzam Begg is one of nine British citizens who were held in Guantánamo Bay by the government of the United States of America. Moazzam will be joined by Victoria Brittain, former associate foreign editor of the Guardian. She is co-author of Moazzam's book Enemy Combatant, and with Gillian Slovo, compiled the play Guantánamo. |
Extraordinary Rendition on Trial: A Panel Discussion and Q&A on the CIA’s Extrajudicial Programme of Extraordinary Rendition
30/07/2008
Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 7-9pm, Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LS, with Gareth Peirce, Phil Shiner and Zachary Katznelson. |
Summer in the City Menu – July 2008
30/07/2008
As the mercury rises in the Caribbean and the UK, a suicidal Binyam Mohamed enters the third month of his hunger strike and a dozen Guantánamo detainees look forward to unfair, arbitrary trials and the death penalty, the London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to join us and partake of the Summer in the city menu – July 200 |
Happy Birthday Binyam! Demo
24/07/2008
On 24 July 2008, Binyam Mohamed will be 30 years old. Unlike most other people aged 30, on that day, Binyam will have spent one out of every five years of his life in illegal American detention. |
Happy Birthday Binyam!
24/07/2008
Binyam Mohamed, the last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay, will be 30 years old on 24 July. Binyam has spent one in five of those years as a hostage in illegal CIA detention. Currently on hunger strike and facing the prospect of an unfair trial and possibly the death penalty, we invite you to "celebrate" Binyam's birthday by taking action that could save his life.
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Three Years, No Justice - Menezes Commemorative Events 22nd July 2008
22/07/2008
Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead on 22nd July 2005 at Stockwell tube station during a pre-planned police anti-terror operation. Not a single police officer has faced any disciplinary action for the killing. This is
despite a jury at the Old Bailey finding the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan police guilty of 'catastrophic errors' at the health and safety trial in October last year.
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Violence at HMP Manchester Against Muslims
22/07/2008
It seems that institutionalised persecution of Muslims, the cause of the violence that recently erupted at HMP Frankland, is now spreading to other prisons. This is particularly apparent at HMP Manchester. In the last few weeks, prisoners have reported to Arani Solicitors that they are being threatened by other inmates, and several have been assaulted. |
Visitors Being Forced To Remove Hijab
21/07/2008
We have been made aware by Arani Solicitors who represent some of the detainees incarcerated within HMP Belmarsh that Prison officers have begun to request the searching of muslim visitors by making them remove their headscarves before visiting. This is of course extremely distressing for both the visitor and the prisoner, and many visits have been cancelled as a result.
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Free Fahad Fundraiser
18/07/2008
Friday July 18th, 2008,1:10pm, New Hyde Park, New York |
Binyam Mohamed: Six Days for Six Years Vigil
18/07/2008
THE LONDON GUANTÁNAMO CAMPAIGN is to hold a vigil, 24 hours a day for six days, outside the American embassy in Grosvenor Square. The vigil will start at 6pm on Friday 18th July, and end on Thursday 24th July at 3pm. |
Screening of Rendition
17/07/2008
Thursday July 17th 7.00 pm, Willesden Green Library Centre, London Guantanamo Campaign and Brent Stop the War. Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files and a member of Reprieve, the legal charity that represents many Guantánamo detainees, will introduce the film and lead the discussion after it.
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Cageprisoners at IslamExpo 2008
14/07/2008
IslamExpo is hosting a unique exhibition by Cageprisoners, comprising the works of men detained without trial in the UK, to highlight the hidden human tragedy taking place, as part of Europe's largest four-day Islamic exhibition at London's Olympia. |
Liberate Prisoner 650 - The Grey Lady of Bagram
10/07/2008
Prisoner 650 is a Pakistani Muslim woman held by the American military for many years without trial in the notorious Bagram Prison in Afghanistan. |
CAPTIVATED: The Art of the Interned
04/07/2008
Cageprisoners and Together: working for well being are hosting a unique art exhibition, comprising the works of those men, detained without trial in the UK, to highlight the mental health concerns and the hidden human tragedy taking place, all in the name of security. |
4 July 2008 and Beyond - Declaration of Independence Picnic
04/07/2008
We invite you to join us on 4 July 2008, in solidarity with Binyam Mohamed, a victim of CIA abduction, torture and illegal detention, and now the last Londoner still detained in Guantánamo Bay. Binyam currently faces the prospect of the death penalty in a kangaroo court. |
Farid Hilali - July Update
01/07/2008
As you may already be aware, Farid Hilali has been moved back to Madrid V prison, and is now being once again held in solitary confinement. He was moved there whilst appearing in magristrates court regarding his ongoing dispute with his previous legal team.
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Health Concerns For UK Resident Detained at Guantánamo Bay
01/07/2008
Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the health and well-being of Binyam Mohamed, particularly following the US government's announcement that it has charged him for trial by military commission. |
