Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

In Britain, prisoners have without trial for fourteen months

Socialist Resistance no4  |  page 4-5

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district judge last November of the contemptuous and prejudicial coverplanted story, published and repuba willing and compliant press".

Liberty director John Wadham has been destroyed as a result".

In Spain the pattern has been the people in the Barcelona and Gerona the charge sheet, this was hailed by an important network of terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda"..

Italian police similarly claimed to ....

far left. "extraordinary tidal wave of completely age" of her client's case, stating it had all "all the hallmarks of an intentionally lished, amplified and exaggerated, by warned that those arrested under the Terrorism Act are now "in real danger of losing their right to a fair trial - they have certainly already lost their reputation and in many cases their lives have same. In January, police arrested ten area. Before the ink had even dried on Prime Minister Aznar as "breaking up have "smashed an Al Qaeda terrorist cell" after 28 men of Pakistani origin were arrested in Naples at the end of

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Home news/the war on civil rights Piers Mostyn tanks at Hestrow arper: from he deployment of 450 troops with

the Ith February highlighted diminishing trust in the government's "war on terror". It was widely considered to be a stunt to boost backing for military action in the gulf and the government was forced on the defensive.

This was an unprecedented and oppressive intrusion of the military into the civilian net, apparently unconnected with Al Qaeda.

FOURTH, why after barely a week (coincidentally after the successful demo) was the military presence scaled down? Had the threat simply passed or did it never exist in the first place? Former police Commander Roy Ramm said that, from his anti-terrorist experience, this "must mean that intelligence reports had changed" -isn't that just another way of saying they no longer stood up?

Metropolitan Police Commissioner John The brutal regime in the Guantanamo camp has led to over 30 suicide attempts soclalist resistance March 2003 5