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counter-terrorism

January 18, 2020

Peace activists included in Prevent Counter Terrorism Policing document

CND and Campaign Against Arms Trade are featured under the heading 'left wing and associated single issue groups.'
August 8, 2019

Counter-terrorism 'need not scapegoat Muslim communities'

The Muslim Council of Britain says the government's Prevent strategy has meant Muslims have been targeted in a discriminatory way.
April 21, 2019

UN human rights chief deeply concerned by mass terrorism convictions in Bahrain

The UN has repeatedly called on Bahrain to ensure that citizenship is not revoked except in accordance with international standards and under independent judicial review.
December 13, 2018

UN experts concerned about EU’s online counter-terrorism proposal

Concern has been expressed that EU's definition of what constitutes terrorist content is too broad.
November 23, 2018

Counter-terror measures in France are dehumanising, says Amnesty

Measures introduced under the state of emergency have now been embedded into ordinary French law, says Amnesty.
November 18, 2018

Open letter on the UK's 'Prevent' counter-terrorism strategy

Prevent has been widely criticised for fostering discrimination against people of Muslim faith or background, and chilling legitimate expression.
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 5, 2016

Amnesty condemns executions after Baghdad bombing

Amnesty International has criticised Iraq’s execution of five people following the suicide truck bombing in Baghdad at the weekend
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 3, 2011

Al-Qaida post-Bin Laden: what next?

The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world, says Murad Batal al-Shishani, an Islamic groups and terrorism issues analyst. Al-Qaida and others' latest strategies look elsewhere, and the death of Osama Bin Laden will not affect these plans.