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British Anti-Terrorism: a Modern Day Witch-Hunt British Anti-Terrorism: A Modern Day Witch-hunt Fahad Ansari October 2005 IHRC PO Box 598 Wembley UK HA9 7XH T (+44) 20 8904 4222 F (+44) 20 8904 5183 E [email protected] W www.ihrc.org.uk First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Islamic Human Rights Commission PO Box 598, Wembley, HA9 7XH © 2005 Islamic Human Rights Commission Printed in England by Islamic Human Rights Commission All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereinafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ISBN 1-903718-36-8 . Leaflet prepared by Anti-Terrorist Branch 1 CONTENTS TABLE OF CASES ……………………………………………………………………………………… 4 I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................ 7 II. THE TERRORISM BILL 2005 .......................................... 10 Encouragement of Terrorism ........................................................... 12 Preparation of Terrorist Acts and Terrorist Training…………………………………14 Dissemination of Terrorist Publications …………………………………………………….15 Detention without Charge for Three Months ....................................... 15 Extended Powers of Proscription ...................................................... 16 Intercept Evidence …………………………………………………………………………………….16 III. THE CLAMPDOWN ON “EXTREMISM” ............................... 18 The Elimination of Israel .................................................................. 20 The Withdrawal of all westerners from Muslim Countries ..................... .20 Shariah Law and the Caliphate ......................................................... 21 Proscription of Hizb-ut-Tahrir............................................................ 21 Closure of Places of Worship............................................................. 22 ID Cards…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 23 Examining Magistrates………………………………………………………………………………. 24 Deportation and Exclusion………………………………………………………………………… 24 IV. THE DETAINEES ........................................................... 26 Internment ................................................................................... 28 Control Orders................................................................................ 29 Lack of Due Process………………………………………………………………………………….30 Very Low Standard of Process ………………………………………………………………. 31 Use of Torture Evidence ……………………………………………………………………….. 32 Derogation from International Law……………………………………………………….. 34 Faulty Intelligence …………………………………………………………………………………. 36 Impact on Family Members and Third Parties………………………………………..39 Deportation …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 40 V. INSTITUTIONAL ISLAMOPHOBIA .................................... 43 VI. PROCESSES................................................................ .46 Proscription.................................................................................... 48 Stop and Search ............................................................................. 49 Arrests .......................................................................................... 51 Port and Border Controls.................................................................. 51 Disruption of Charitable Work........................................................... 52 Internment and Control Orders......................................................... 53 Extradition…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 53 Shoot to Kill………………………………………………………………………………………………. 54 VII. ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR......................................... 56 Muslims targeted even when victims of crime ..................................... 60 Conditions of Detention ................................................................... 61 No Accountability ............................................................................ 65 Care of British Muslims Abroad ……………………………………………………………….. 66 Campus Watch …………………………………………………………………………………………. 69 VIII. EFFECTS ON THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY........................... 74 Demonisation ................................................................................. 76 Social Discrimination ...................................................................... 81 2 Mental Torture................................................................................ 83 Lack of Trust in the System.............................................................. 85 Lack of Cooperation with Authorities.................................................. 86 IX. LESSONS FROM THE PAST: FIGHTING THE IRA................ 88 Criminalisation of the Irish community in Britain ................................. 90 Internment ................................................................................... 91 ‘Here’s one we made earlier’ ............................................................ 93 X. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ......................... 95 3 TABLE OF CASE STUDIES CASE STUDY 1: “M” ………………………………………………………………………………………… 35 CASE STUDY 2: OLD TRAFFORD BOMB PLOT ………………………………………………… 36 CASE STUDY 3: THE RICIN PLOT THAT NEVER WAS ………………………………………36 CASE STUDY 4: MAHMOUD ABU RIDEH …………………………………………………………. 37 CASE STUDY 5: EXPORTNG TORTURE: FROM SWEDEN TO EGYPT ………………..38 CASE STUDY 6: MUJAHEDEEN-E-KHALQ (MKO) ……………………………………………… 46 CASE STUDY 7: TERROR LAWS AFFECT HUNGRY ORPHANS ……………………………50 CASE STUDY 8: RACHID RAMDA………………………………………………………………………..52 CASE STUDY 9: “WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?” ………………………………………………. 56 CASE STUDY 10: “I WILL BLOW YOUR SON’S HEAD OFF!!” ……………………………. 56 CASE STUDY 11: “I WILL SMASH YOUR F***ING ARAB FACE IN” ……………………56 CASE STUDY 12: “WE WILL KILL EVERY F***ING ONE OF YOU MUSLIMS” …… 57 CASE STUDY 13: YASSIR ABDELMOUTTALIB …………………………………………………….58 CASE STUDY 14: DISABLED AND TORTURED IN BELMARSH ………………………….. 60 CASE STUDY 15: MORE ABUSE OF BELMARSH DETAINEES ……………………………..61 CASE STUDY 16: THE THREAT OF HIJAB …………………………………………………………. 62 CASE STUDY 17: POLICE BRUTALITY COMMENDED ………………………………………….62 CASE STUDY 18: MONEAR ELDRISSY ………………………………………………………………..63 CASE STUDY 19: NADIR REMLI ………………………………………………………………………… 64 CASE STUDY 20: SUSPENDED FOR DEFENDING FREE SPEECH ………………………..66 CASE STUDY 21: NASSER AMIN ………………………………………………………………………….67 CASE STUDY 22: ARANI V THE SUN ……………………………………………………………………72 CASE STUDY 23: SULAYMAN ZAIN-UL-ABIDIN ………………………………………………….75 CASE STUDY 24: LOFT RAISSI …………………………………………………………………………..76 CASE STUDY 25: MUSTAFA LABSI ……………………………………………………………………..77 CASE STUDY 26: KIDS THREATENED WITH GUANTANAMO ………………………………78 CASE STUDY 27: PERSECUTED ALGERIANS ……………………………………………………...78 4 CASE STUDY 28: INTERNATIONAL HARASSMENT ……………………………………………….79 CASE STUDY 29: LIFETIME OF PERSECUTION …………………………………………………….79 5 “FOR NOW EVERYONE IN ALL MUSLIM COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR MORE RAIDS, ARRESTS AND HARASSMENT FROM THE AUTHORITIES AND THIS WILL INCLUDE BRITISH, WORKING PROFESSIONALS. THERE WILL BE MANY MORE B.P.P.'S (BRITISH POLITICAL PRISONERS) LIKE MYSELF AND OTHERS.” Woodhill Detainee Babar Ahmed (August 2004) 6 I. INTRODUCTION 7 “It is all too easy for us to respond to terror in a way which undermines commitment to our most deeply held values and convictions, and which cheapens our right to call ourselves a civilized nation.” - Cherie Booth, (26 July 2005)1 1 19th Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lecture delivered by Cherie Booth in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 26 July 2005 8 The Twenty First Century was supposed to herald in a new era of freedom, liberty and human rights throughout the world. World leaders and politicians swore that the mistakes and atrocities of the Twentieth Century would never be repeated and that a new epoch of tolerance and co-existence would exist irrespective of differences in race, gender or creed. For Muslims living in Twenty-First Century Britain, the reality is a far bitterer pill to swallow. Since the introduction of the Terrorism Act 2000 and the events of September 11 2001, Muslims in Britain have found themselves under severe persecution by the British government, Police Force and other state institutions. Draconian anti-terrorism measures such as internment without charge, control orders and house arrest are normally associated with Burma and Zimbabwe. Yet this is what is happening in Britain today. Daily stop and search of tens of thousands of Muslims and hundreds of arrests of innocent Muslims have effectively demonised the Muslim community in Britain as “the enemy within”. This, in turn with wholly irresponsible media coverage, has lead to a rapidly increasing level of resentment and intolerance of the community by the wider society. This has been a direct cause of the huge upsurge in Islamophobic attacks in Britain, particularly in the wake of the London bombings. The government is now proposing a new list of even more draconian anti-terror laws. These measures will confer previously unthinkable powers on law enforcement authorities to counter terrorism and will effectively remove what few civil liberties remain in Britain today. They bear the hallmarks of authoritarian dictatorships rather than liberal democracies. Such proposals are only the latest in a series of such measures which have been used to victimise British Muslims even before the events of September 11 2001. However, such measures will not prevent terrorism similar to how draconian laws in police states around the globe do not prevent terrorism in those countries. As long as there is a perceived
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