Terror Arrests || Nottingham Uni
Concerned | 17.05.2008 00:23 | Terror War
Terror Arrests on Campus
ConcernedStudent | 16.05.2008 01:46 | Terror War | Nottinghamshire
Two people have been arrested on the University of Nottingham campus under the Anti-terror laws.
According to news.bbc.co.uk:
" Two men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act, police have said.
Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student.
They are being questioned while premises connected to them, including campus property, are searched.
Police said it was a joint operation between Nottinghamshire Police and the Midlands counter-terrorist unit.
Supt Simon Nickless from Nottinghamshire Police said officers had been working alongside community representatives to "offer support and reassurance".
He said the operation has been "low-key" and the community's response to it had been "calm and rational".
Full co-operation
"Feedback is that people accept that this is the sort of operation that is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of communities," he said.
A uniformed presence is in place at the main Trent building, which houses the schools of English, modern languages and philosophy as well as management offices.
Jonathan Ray, a spokesman for the university, said the institution "has been co-operating fully from the outset throughout this inquiry".
"Nottinghamshire Police have stressed that there is no risk to the university community or to the wider public," he said.
"Here, at the institution, we fully accept that this sort of police operation is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of our communities." "
ConcernedStudent
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/05/398954.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7405054.stm
ConcernedStudent | 16.05.2008 01:46 | Terror War | Nottinghamshire
Two people have been arrested on the University of Nottingham campus under the Anti-terror laws.
According to news.bbc.co.uk:
" Two men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act, police have said.
Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student.
They are being questioned while premises connected to them, including campus property, are searched.
Police said it was a joint operation between Nottinghamshire Police and the Midlands counter-terrorist unit.
Supt Simon Nickless from Nottinghamshire Police said officers had been working alongside community representatives to "offer support and reassurance".
He said the operation has been "low-key" and the community's response to it had been "calm and rational".
Full co-operation
"Feedback is that people accept that this is the sort of operation that is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of communities," he said.
A uniformed presence is in place at the main Trent building, which houses the schools of English, modern languages and philosophy as well as management offices.
Jonathan Ray, a spokesman for the university, said the institution "has been co-operating fully from the outset throughout this inquiry".
"Nottinghamshire Police have stressed that there is no risk to the university community or to the wider public," he said.
"Here, at the institution, we fully accept that this sort of police operation is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of our communities." "
ConcernedStudent
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/05/398954.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7405054.stm
Concerned
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Suspicion regarding Police motives
19.05.2008 20:18
I understand that one of the men arrested was a politics student at the University and had downloaded the "Radical Material" for a legitimate postgraduate research project into the methods of Al-Qaeda.
If he were a genuine Al-Queda operative then he be accessing the material in the public domain anyway, so the fact that he has been arrested under the anti-terrorism bill is an over-reaction, which means he can be held for 30 days without trial for doing academic research!
He was in the process of suing Nottinghamshire Police for Unlawful arrest during a protest against the Israeli wall which separates many Palestinian villagers from their land or places of work. This casts suspicion over the Police's source of information about the alleged crime and their motives for his arrest.
That he has been arrested for downloading radical material is a symptom of the current paranoia about islamic terrorism. If this had been in the 80's then downloading material about Irish Republicanism might have illicited a similar response, or in the 70's & 80's the same might be true of downloading the communist party manifesto, where nowadays these would be seen as relatively harmless.
If he were a genuine Al-Queda operative then he be accessing the material in the public domain anyway, so the fact that he has been arrested under the anti-terrorism bill is an over-reaction, which means he can be held for 30 days without trial for doing academic research!
He was in the process of suing Nottinghamshire Police for Unlawful arrest during a protest against the Israeli wall which separates many Palestinian villagers from their land or places of work. This casts suspicion over the Police's source of information about the alleged crime and their motives for his arrest.
That he has been arrested for downloading radical material is a symptom of the current paranoia about islamic terrorism. If this had been in the 80's then downloading material about Irish Republicanism might have illicited a similar response, or in the 70's & 80's the same might be true of downloading the communist party manifesto, where nowadays these would be seen as relatively harmless.
Godfrey
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