No to internment, no to torture! Sun 3 Oct
CAMPACC / Stop Police Terror | 17.09.2004 09:35
Campaigners are calling for people to gather in solidarity with detainees held at Belmarsh prison on the day before the Law Lords review a High Court judgement.
In August 2004, the High Court ruled that evidence from torture could be admissible evidence against fourteen foreign nationals held without charge at Belmarsh and Woodhill maximum-security prisons and at Broadmoor Hospital.
The men are detained under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which allows the Home Secretary to detain indefinitely any foreign nationals if he has 'reasonable suspicion' that they have links with 'international terrorism'. At hearings last year, the government acknowledged that some of the 'evidence' could have been obtained by torturing detainees elsewhere, e.g. at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The men have never been questioned by the police, nor have they been put on trial.
* Belmarsh Prison, Western Way, London SE28
* Sunday 3 October 2004, from 12 noon
Speakers include:
* Ashfaq Ahmed - Baba Ahmed's father
* Shami Shakrabarti - director of Liberty
* Gareth Peirce - human rights lawyer
* Victoria Brittain - writer and journalist
* Jean Lambert - MEP
* Dr Adnan Siddiqui - Stop Political Terror
* Dr G. Siddiqui - Leader of the Muslim Parliament
* Saghir Hussein - Association of Muslim Lawyers
* Harmit Athwal - Campaign Against Racism and Fascism
* Tim Gopsill - National Union of Journalists
* Desiree Howells - Peace & Justice in East London
* Paul Donovan - journalist
* Nasser Butt - Chair of Liberal Democrat Muslim Forum
Directions and trains: Belmarsh Prison is on Western Way, London SE28, just north of Plumstead station. Trains leave every half-hour (e.g. 11.01am, 11.31am) from Charing Cross to Plumstead station, arriving a half-hour later. Trains stop on the way at London Bridge and Greenwich. From East London, you can connect via the DLR going from Stratford to Greenwich stations.
This event is sponsored by: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Liberty, Stop Police Terror, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, John Austin MP, CARF, Peace and Justice in East London, Sutton for Peace and Justice, The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, Association of Muslim Lawyers, The Green Party of England and Wales, Voices UK and the comedian and broadcaster Mark Thomas.
For further information contact Estella at the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) on 020 7586 5892 or email:
estella24@tiscali.co.uk . Or contact Stop Police Terror on 07951 159 257 or email: spt622@yahoo.co.uk
The men are detained under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which allows the Home Secretary to detain indefinitely any foreign nationals if he has 'reasonable suspicion' that they have links with 'international terrorism'. At hearings last year, the government acknowledged that some of the 'evidence' could have been obtained by torturing detainees elsewhere, e.g. at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The men have never been questioned by the police, nor have they been put on trial.
* Belmarsh Prison, Western Way, London SE28
* Sunday 3 October 2004, from 12 noon
Speakers include:
* Ashfaq Ahmed - Baba Ahmed's father
* Shami Shakrabarti - director of Liberty
* Gareth Peirce - human rights lawyer
* Victoria Brittain - writer and journalist
* Jean Lambert - MEP
* Dr Adnan Siddiqui - Stop Political Terror
* Dr G. Siddiqui - Leader of the Muslim Parliament
* Saghir Hussein - Association of Muslim Lawyers
* Harmit Athwal - Campaign Against Racism and Fascism
* Tim Gopsill - National Union of Journalists
* Desiree Howells - Peace & Justice in East London
* Paul Donovan - journalist
* Nasser Butt - Chair of Liberal Democrat Muslim Forum
Directions and trains: Belmarsh Prison is on Western Way, London SE28, just north of Plumstead station. Trains leave every half-hour (e.g. 11.01am, 11.31am) from Charing Cross to Plumstead station, arriving a half-hour later. Trains stop on the way at London Bridge and Greenwich. From East London, you can connect via the DLR going from Stratford to Greenwich stations.
This event is sponsored by: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Liberty, Stop Police Terror, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, John Austin MP, CARF, Peace and Justice in East London, Sutton for Peace and Justice, The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, Association of Muslim Lawyers, The Green Party of England and Wales, Voices UK and the comedian and broadcaster Mark Thomas.
For further information contact Estella at the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) on 020 7586 5892 or email:
estella24@tiscali.co.uk . Or contact Stop Police Terror on 07951 159 257 or email: spt622@yahoo.co.uk
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