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September 22, 2018

More oversight needed on anti-terror legislation to protect fundamental legal rights

Fundamental legal rights could be put at risk if the government proceeds with the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill in its current form, the Law Society of England and Wales has warned.
July 26, 2018

Church of Scotland urges UK government to seek assurances terror suspects will not face execution

The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has agreed to provide evidence from British intelligence services to support the prosecution of two alleged terrorists in the United States without seeking assurances that the accused would not be subject to the death penalty.
January 6, 2015

Informing on toddlers and preventing terrorism

Imagine police wake you. Though not suspected of any involvement in violence, you are being investigated for terrorism-related offences, on the basis of a remark by your three-year-old at a playgroup or childminder’s.
May 2, 2011

The murder of Osama bin Laden: The end of the beginning of the 'clash of civilisations'?

Osama Bin Laden may be dead, but if Americans and Europeans now think that they can begin to relax over the prospect of ‘international terror’, they are very mistaken, says Michael Marten. US policy in particular is catastrophically misaligned in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. The 'clash of civilisations' thesis is also gravely misleading, and religion (not least Islam) is not implicated in all this in the way simplistic analyses presume.
October 26, 2010

Kenya church leaders' stance on terror suspects angers Muslims

Christian leaders in Kenya have cautiously backed the extradition of terror suspects to Uganda, expulsions that have enraged Muslims.
October 31, 2007

Government has failed to make case for extending detention of terror suspects

The UK government has not made a convincing case for extending the time suspected terrorists can be detained without charge, according to the Church of England. The government's paper was published at the end of July 2007.