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SACC campaigns against Britain's terrorism acts, against arbitary imprisonment and torture, against laws that criminalise political and community activity. SACC stands up for human rights and civil liberties.

Ten Years of Shame
Defend Human Rights, Close Guantánamo

Protest: Saturday 14 January, Edinburgh

12noon - 4pm East end of Princes St (in front of Register House, where North Bridge meets Waterloo Place and Princes Street)
Organised by Edinburgh University Amnesty International, supported by Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition and SACC

January 2012 sees the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo bay prison camp. President Obama said he would close the camp but he has not. Kidnapping and imprisoning people indefinitely without charge or trial, denying them their freedom and human rights, gratuitously denigrating and abusing them physically and mentally: ALL OF THIS MUST END.
Ten Years of Shame

News about Human Rights and Civil Liberties

World leaders urged to ban solitary confinement

10 December 2011
On International Human Rights Day, SACC is calling for a ban on solitary confinement and prisoner isolation ...

Extradition: MPs must stand up to US Bullying

02 December 2011
SACC accuses US ambassador Louis Susman of "crude bullying" in his statement to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday...

Arrest of Turkeys lawyers violates human rights treaties, says BHRC

28 November 2011
Bar Human Rights Committee tells Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan thet the arrest of 51 lawyers is a ‘grave violation of every human rights treaty...

Solitary Confinement must stop

28 November 2011
Solitary confinement violates the Declaration of Human Rights. SACC is contacting the governments of Britain, the USA, France, Germany, Turkey and Australia asking them to take...

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Red hands, Troops out of Afghanistan Demo, London

Troops out of Afghanistan Demo, London, 20 Nov 2010

Know your rights - Stand up for Civil Liberties

The police are trampling on our civil liberties in an effort to strangle resistance to the cuts. Use your civil liberties or lose them.
Civil liberties - Your Rights: support and information

Glasgow Defence Campaign
Defend Civil Liberties - Oppose political policing

The Glasgow Defence Campaign has been established to oppose political policing and defend democratic rights and civil liberties in the struggle against the cuts in Glasgow.

Glasgow Defence Campaign - No to political policing

Justice for Talha Ahsan

Bool launch - Talha Ahsan's poems Talha Ahsan has been imprisoned without trial for over four years while fighting an attempt to extradite him to the US to face "terrorism" charges. Talha Ahsan has never visited the US and says that any case against him should be heard in Britain. He denies any involvement with terrorism.

His extradition to the likelihood of long-term solitary confiment in the US would violate the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Justice for Talha Ahsan - more information.


Do you write about the Himalaya? Then write responsibly. Unrest in eastern districts of Tibet is continuing. Human rights abuses by the Chinese Government are continuing. It's time to call a spade a spade, and to call Tibet, Tibet.
Tibet, China and the Himalaya

Background and Comment
about civil liberties, human rights & the war on terror

Racism or Islamophobia: it's all damn prejudice!

by Julia Davidson, 05 January 2012
The 1999 Macpherson Report into the death of the British teenager Steven Lawrence has become synonymous with institutional racism. In 2012 detainees Shaker Aamer and...

Ten years of shame - Close Guantanamo

by Edinburgh STWC, 04 January 2012
This month sees the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo bay prison camp. President Obama said he would close the camp but he has not....

Ten Years On - Internment and the erosion of civil liberties

by Richard Haley, 01 January 2012
Ten years of arbitrary punishment, racism and the erosion of civil liberties...

Human Rights in Tibet - are climbers turning a blind eye?

by Billy Briggs, 11 November 2011
A human rights group has condemned mountaineers for implicitly condoning the Chinese occupation of Tibet by holding a conference this month that “airbrushes” Tibetan peaks...

Babar Ahmad – the buck stops with Theresa May

by Richard Haley, 11 October 2011
Freedom for Babar Ahmad - the buck stops with Theresa May...

Demonising the Fly-in: Welcome to Palestine, Unwelcome to Israel

by Les Levidow, 27 July 2011
Les Levidow was given free accommodation and food by the Israeli government during 8-12 July, in an unusual holiday package booked via Easyjet. Here's his...

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End Prisoner Isolation

StopIsolation - A new international initiative to end long-term solitary confinement and prisoner isolation. Add your support to the statement.

Justice for Phillip Harkins - US extradition victim

Phillip Harkins Phillip Harkins is a 32-year old Scottish man facing extradition to the US on a murder charge. The evidence against him is flimsy. Phillip has been in jail in London since February 2003. His human rights have been violated by callous treatment in Britain, and will be further violated in the US if his extradition goes ahead.
Phillip Harkins - US extradition victim

Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani Citizen who has lived and studied in America. In 2003 Aafia "disappeared" along with her three children while visiting her mother in Pakistan. She says that she suffered torture and abuse in US-run secret prisons. In 2008 she was taken to the US to stand trial. In March 2010 she was convicted, on flimsy evidence, of "assaulting and attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan" while she was in custody there. She injured no one during her alleged action. In September 2010 she was sentenced to 86 years in prison.

Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

About SACC

SACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a civil liberties and human rights group based in Scotland that campaigns against Britain's 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, to Unite Against Fascism and to the UK National Guantanamo Coalition.

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