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SACC condemns award of census contract to subsidiary of "Abu Ghraib" firmSACC is deeply concerned that CACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was in June awarded the contract to run the 2011 Scottish Census. We think that it is wrong to give business to a company that helped run Abu Ghraib and that it is unwise to ask Scots to give personal information to a company whose parent company is closely linked to the US military and intelligence communities. Full Statement and background from SACC Scottish Census contract is aiding cover-up by Abu Ghraib firm - Press release, 7 October 2008 TAKE ACTION Supporters include comedian and writer Mark Thomas, former MP Tony Benn, journalist John Pilger, peace campaigner Bruce Kent and former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg Download a petition sheet and help us gather signatures. Ask your MSPs to support the resolution An Ethical Census in 2011 lodged in the Scottish Parliament by Pauline McNeill MSP |
Latest Newscensus - GROS is hand in glove with Abu Ghraib firm
21 November 2008 Stop and Search in Scotland - new figures
09 November 2008 Census company claims immunity over Abu Ghraib allegations
04 November 2008 Government to consider prosecutions over Binyam Mohamed rendition
31 October 2008 |
Background and CommentIs Barack Obama better than George W Bush?
by Mohammad Naveen Asif, 07 November 2008 Human Rights abuses in Sri Lanka
by British Tamils Forum, 05 November 2008 Stop Deportations to Risk of Torture
by Human Rights Watch, 03 November 2008 America's Ugly Truth
by John Wight, 28 October 2008 Creating SuspectsThe "War on Terror" promotes a racist culture of suspicion towards migrant and Muslim communities. It generates and manipulates public fears to justify a perpetual state of war. It started long before the 11th September attacks Ordinary criminal law provides more than adequate powers for the police to protect the public, but that law is not adequate for the anti-democratic 'war on terror'. We are meant to distrust others and to accept new state powers
as our benign protector. Attacks on civil liberties are not
simply a means but also a fundamental purpose of this 'war on
terror'... |
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Dear Labour Party, It's time for a change of policy"Inept though Brown is, he's absolutely committed to the same neoliberal warmongering policies as Blair was. He stands shoulder to shoulder with George Bush, British troops remain in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan is as aggressively pursued as if Blair were still prime minister."
"Brown's intent on achieving detention without charge for 42 days in the teeth of substantial parliamentary and public opposition. ID cards are still to be introduced, asylum-seekers are still forcibly imprisoned, impoverished and deported." |
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Keep Torture Flights Out of ScotlandThe CIA acknowledged earlier this year that the rendition programme will continue. The United States is currently thought to be holding 27,000 prisoners around the world without charge or trial. Many prisoners are being held in Iraq and, according to lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, the the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there. Scottish airports are still wide open to flights providing illegal support for secret detention and torture. In the past they have provided crucial support for illegal renditions. SACC has evidence (eg Rendition plane lands at Glasgow ) that several aircraft suspected of links to the CIA's rendition programme have landed in Scotland in the past year. The Scottish Parliament must take action to make keep torturers and their accomplices out of Scotland. Scotland wants no part in extraordinary rendition: MSP hands petition to Cabinet Secretary for Justice. |
Government backs down over 42 day detention plansThe House of Lords have thrown out the government's plan for 42 day detention without charge by a massive 309 votes to 118. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says the plan will now be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill. This is a massive victory for everyone who campaigned against 42 day detention. The scale of the victory is underlined by the Government's decision a day later to ditch another cherished part of the Counter Terrorism Bill. Plans which would have let ministers order inquests to be held in private on security grounds have been dropped. The partial dismantling of the Counter Terrorism Bill is the biggest victory for human rights in the UK for many years. But anti-terrorist legislation passed in 2006 still allows people to be detained for 28 days with charge. This is far too long. It's time to restore justice and give people suspected of involvement in "terrorism" the same rights as people suspectd of other offences.
Ministers shelve 42-day detention |
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About SACCSACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a grassroots group that campaigns against Britain's anti-terrorism acts and offers solidarity to the communities most affected by them. SACC is affiliated to the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, to the Stop the War Coalition and to the UK's National Guantanamo Coalition. Organisations that SACC is affiliated to don't necessarily endorse the views held by SACC. |
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