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Researching the War on Terror

We produce cutting edge reports, briefings and papers documenting the abuse of due process and the erosion of the rule of law in the context of the ‘war on terror’.

Thanks to our unique access to impacted individuals and communities and the trust established with them, we are able to build our reports on unmatched authentic and accurate primary source information.

In addition, our empirical analysis and investigations into subjects related to far-reaching impacts of the ‘war on terror’ on law, people and communities, mean that our research reports are widely referenced and acknowledged by leading academics and organisations.

Our research and analysis aims to cut through the noise and provide an invaluable critical perspective for our advocacy work.

Reports & Publications

Submission to the Home Office Schedule 7 consultation

June 10, 2014

<div class="field_pub_report"><a href="/"></a></div><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/CP___Schedule_7_review.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37);"><img alt="" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/icon-pdf.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: none; outline: none 0px; vertical-align: -5px;" /> Download the report</a>CP provides a submission to the Home Office submission to the Schedule 7 consultation.  CagePrisoners welcomes the Home Office review of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000.  We commend the public review of these powers, which have been a great source of concern to Muslim communities in the UK and exacerbated existing tensions between law enforcement and minority groups. Yet as we outline in this submission, CagePrisoners is doubtful that simply altering Schedule 7 powers as outlined in the Home Office report is sufficient, however well-meaning these changes may be.  Firstly, Muslim communities and minority groups complain of having been humiliated, frustrated and inconvenienced by Schedule 7 stops at a rate that far surpasses the non-Muslim majority.  The very basis on which Schedule 7 searches are conducted – selection based on intuition or unspecified risk factors rather than reasonable suspicion – is counterproductive to combatting terrorism and may constitute a violation of human rights.  Secondly, the perception that to stop members of “suspect communities” rather than suspected individuals – as currently happens – is neither a moral nor an effective way to fight terrorism. CagePrisoners urges the Home Office to learn from the troubling legacies of other stop and search powers, namely Section 1 and 44, and the demonstrated existence of institutionalized racism in our police forces, as detailed in the MacPherson report.  Finally, Schedule 7 stops could become an easy gateway for law enforcement to pursue other kinds of civil and human rights abuses, as clearly demonstrated by the case of Madhi Hashi.  As this submission details, while the proposed changes to Section 7 are a step forward, they are not enough to engender trust in minority communities about Schedule 7 powers, given that Schedule 7 has become so notorious for breaches of basic civil and human rights.

Reports & Publications

Unnecessary and disproportional: the killings of Anwar and Abdul Rahman al-Awlaki

December 28, 2013

<div class="field_article_img"><div>Image:</div><img src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/image001_48.jpg"></div><div class="field_article_author"><div>Written By:</div>CAGE Editor</div><a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/media/k2/items/cache/2eacf501e73efaa39f002f3a4aeb5ee0_XL.jpg" title=""Click to preview image" "><img alt="Unnecessary and disproportional: the killings of Anwar and Abdul Rahman al-Awlaki" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/image001_46.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; width: 200px; height: 283px;" /></a>One year since the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki CagePrisoners publishes a report which reveals what role he really played in the Al-Qaeda leadership<a href="http://cageprisoners.com/pdf/AwlakiReport_4.pdf">Download full report here</a>“How excellent would it be if you ask brother Basir to send us the resume, in detail and lengthy, of brother Anwar al-‘Awlaqi, as well as the facts he relied on when recommending him…and how excellent would it be if he gives us a chance to be introduced to him more…”- Usamah Bin Laden (more than a year after US Justice Department’s memo ‘legalising’ the targeted killing of Awlaki)“As for my husband who was assassinated by a US drone exactly one year from today, I believe strongly that his killing has nothing to do with the allegations by the US that he has links to terrorist attacks, but rather to silence him because of his influence on Muslims in the Western world as a Muslim scholar and preacher…the drone programme is wrong and illegal because it kills a lot more civilians than so called [high] valuable targets.”– Gihan Mohsen Baker, wife of Anwar al-Awlaki Exactly a year ago, American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike carried out by the US in Northern Yemen – only one of scores that are dying as part of a programme of extrajudicial killings. On the anniversary of his killing, CagePrisoners releases its report “Unnecessary and Disproportional: The Killing of Anwar and Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki”.This report analyses and challenges the narrative developed by various governments and media outlets to justify the assassination of the Muslim cleric, presenting him as a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the mastermind behind several attacks against the USA.  The report also highlights how dangerous such a narrative can be as it extends to include the targeting and killing of Awlaki’s 16 year old son, also an American citizen, a few days later.With only a few weeks left until Election Day, most people will be focused on the election campaigns of President Obama – few will remember that it is under Obama’s leadership that the policy of targeted killings has intensified and expanded.  This report will throw light on the legal and moral inconsistencies that appear as a Nobel Peace Prize winning President continues developing his drone programme enabling him to carry out extra-judicial killings across the globe, picking off targets on a ‘kill list’ once a week. Through the case study of Anwar and Abdur Rahman al-Awlaki, questions are also raised about the UK’s involvement in targeted killings as more evidence emerges of British citizens that have been killed in drone attacks including evidence to suggest that British authorities actively assist the CIA in its drone programme. CagePrisoners demands complete transparency in relation to the process by which individuals are placed on President Obama’s ‘kill list’, independent investigations into civilian deaths and injuries during drone strikes and the end to British complicity and the complicity of any other States, with US drone strikes.MoazzamBegg, Director of CagePrisoners and former detainee at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay says: “In 2001, the Bush administration initiated its rendition program, organising the kidnapping, torture and illegal detention of Muslims all across the world, a program in which I was a victim before being released without any explanation. Many hoped that President Obama would end this War of Terror.  However, not only did he not stop, he went further by assassinating anyone that he deemed a terror suspect. We now know that the United Kingdom was fully aware and fully involved in Bush’s rendition program and abuses including the torture and unlawful imprisonment of some of its own nationals. Likewise and sadly, there is little doubt that British authorities are complicit in Obama’s programme of extra-judicial killing. Several years ago, CagePrisoners supported Anwar Al-Awlaki since he was detained without charge or trial. Today, we feel compelled to release this report since he was executed without charge or trial”

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Reports

Submission to the Home Office Schedule 7 consultation

Submission to Home Office stop and search consultation

Submission to the Home Office Schedule 7 consultation

Submission to Home Office stop and search consultation

The PREVENT strategy: A cradle to grave police-state

Unnecessary and disproportional: the killings of Anwar and Abdul Rahman al-Awlaki

Application to Deproscribe Hamas

Report: Britain's Apartheid Apologists

Complaint against Egypt to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

New Report Examines Muslim Duty Towards Prisoners

DISCHARGING THE OBLIGATION: Muslim Captives and the Principle of Sufficiency in a Globalised World

The Conscious Muslim Guide

THE GAMES OF SHAME: CAN THE 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS WHITEWASH GENOCIDE AND WIDESPREAD EXCLUSION?

Unnecessary and Disproportional: The Killings of Anwar and Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki

Johannesburg Declaration on Israel's Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide: Towards a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement for Palestine

Over 400 UK Imams and scholars reject Gove's new extremism definition and call on Muslims to support MEND, CAGE and The Muslim Association of Britain

European Policy Briefing: Special Edition on Palestine

Censoring Palestine, From Schools to Workplaces

Expert Opinions on Israel’s “right to exist” by Professor John Dugard SC and Professor Avi Shlaim

We are Beginning to Spread Terror - French

Muslim Scholars demand an end to War on Terror

Aafia Siddiqui: A case of lies and inconsistencies report

Letter to the EC president

Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure Form

20 Years of TACT: Justice Under Threat report

Exploiting the Pandemic

Coronavirus Bill: Extra powers must be subject to strict oversight and must end with the pandemic

Letter to Home Secretary

Over 100 leading academics and campaigners call for end to PREVENT and back CAGE’s alternative 8-point plan

Beyond PREVENT: A Real Alternative To Securitised Policies report

Schedule 7: Harassment at Borders

Response to Narratives of Division by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

CCE Exposed Report

Letter from National Prevent Coordinator Nik Adams

Response to National PREVENT coordinator

Separating Families – How PREVENT Seeks the Removal of Children report

Response to call for Working Definition of 'Islamophobia'

Torture in America: FBI & DOD torture of Ali al-Marri on the Charleston Naval Brig - Report

Africa Review: Ethiopia report

The 'Science' of Pre-Crime

Consent Denied report

External Review into CAGE’s handling of the Mohammed Emwazi Affair report

Submission to Home Affairs Select Committee

CAGE’s response to Henry Jackson Society

Failing Our Communities: A case study approach to understanding PREVENT

CAGE Brochure

Challenging the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill

ISC inquiry NGO joint letter

Criminalising Non-Violent Organisations

Serious Crime Bill Submission

Repression of Palestine solidarity in Schools 2021

Blowback report

Submission to the Home Office on Schedule 7

The PREVENT strategy: A cradle to grave police-state report

Tackling Extremism in the UK: Part I

Tackling Extremism in the UK: Part II

We are Beginning to Spread Terror - English

Guantanamo Begins at Home report

CagePrisoners Annual Report 2010-11

Djamel Beghal - British and French complicity in torture report

Good Muslim Bad Muslim: A response to the revised PREVENT strategy report

Too blunt for just outcomes report

Fabricating Terrorism III: British Complicity In Renditions And Torture report

The Horn Of Africa Inquistion The Latest Profile In The War On Terror report

Operation Luxor: Unravelling the Myths behind Austria's Largest Ever Peacetime Raids

Detention Immorality report

Blacklisted report

Guantanamo’s Hidden History: Shocking statistics of starvation

Fabricating Terrorism II: British Complicity in Renditions and Torture report

Devoid of the Rule of Law: Pakistan’s ‘War on Terror’

Citizens No More: ‘War on Terror’ Abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Off the Record report

Inside Africa’s War on Terror: War on Terror Detentions in the Horn of Africa report

Foreign Nationals Rendered To Guantánamo Bay-Style Detention And Abuse In Ethiopia report

Enforced Disappearances in Pakistan report

Detention in the name of the War on Terror report