<div class="itemIntroText" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; padding: 4px 0px 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Cageprisoners releases its Annual Report for 2010 - 2011 [fusion_button link="http://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Cageprisoners_Annual_Report_2011.pdf" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download the report[/fusion_button] &nbsp; </div> <div class="itemFullText" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The assassination of Osama bin Laden by the US in Pakistan can, in all likelihood, be identified as one of the most significant incidents of 2011. A War on Terror that was begun, specifically to seek out and destroy him, has proven to reach far beyond the individual. Rather, what we have seen over the last decade, is that the War on Terror has been indiscriminate in its killing and detention of human beings.</span></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, Cageprisoners took on the task of looking into extrajudicial killings, particularly in relation to drone strikes. Initially we were concerned with the issue because we saw it as the ultimate form of removing due process from an individual. However, we are more dedicated than ever, because we have come to see the impact of these drone strikes on the affected communities. People from Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen are more angry than they have ever been due to the complete disregard the American establishment has for human life.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">While the impact of these drone strikes is felt deeply in the affected countries, the sentiment of anger and alienation is finding itself also in the UK. As the attacks increase, the British security agencies have stepped up their harassment of Muslims from those countries, on the assumption that somehow the sense of anger will find itself in the UK. Such assumptions have already resulted in gross abuses of human rights, as more criminalised communities are being created.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">While we have decided to take on work relating to extrajudicial killings, we have not allowed it to distract us from the very important work we have been doing on Guantanamo, secret detention and counter-</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">terrorism policies around the world. Currently our staff and interns are working on major projects including:</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"></div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Analysis of counter-terrorism policies in France and French complicity in renditions and torture abroad.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">How non-Muslims in the UK have been impacted by counter-terrorism legislation.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">US domestic counter-terrorism policies focussing on procedural impropriety and disproportionate sentencing within the federal justice system.</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A major revision to our previous Detention Immorality report, looking into the extent of detention without charge in the UK.</span></span></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;"></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With the tenth anniversary of Guantanamo fast approaching, Cageprisoners has also initiated a major project called <span style="font-style: italic;">Laa Tansa—Never Forget</span>, which we will be releasing in January 2012. Our hope, is that we will be able to leave a lasting legacy about the abuses that took place in Guantanamo Bay. <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is only through the Grace of Allah SWT that Cageprisoners still continues to function today and that we are able to continue helping those who are in great need.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"></div> </div>

<div>[fusion_button link="http://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CP-Djamel-Beghal-British-and-French-complicity-in-torture.pdf" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download the report[/fusion_button]</div> &nbsp; <div>As part of the series of reports called Fabricating Terrorism, CAGE has taking it upon itself, since 2005, to highlight the extent to which the British authorities have acted unlawfully in the treatment of terrorism suspects held abroad, but more importantly, their complicity in rendition and torture.</div> <div></div> <div>This report is an extension of the same theme; the words of Djamel Beghal expose how not only the British, but also the French authorities were involved in his torture, dating back to just before 9/11.</div>

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" hundred_percent_height="no" hundred_percent_height_scroll="no" hundred_percent_height_center_content="yes" equal_height_columns="no" menu_anchor="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" enable_mobile="no" parallax_speed="0.3" video_mp4="" video_webm="" video_ogv="" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" video_preview_image="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_2" layout="1_2" spacing="" center_content="no" link="" target="_self" min_height="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="left top" background_repeat="no-repeat" hover_type="none" border_size="0" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" dimension_margin="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset="" last="no"][fusion_text] <div class="itemIntroText"> Cageprisoners releases the latest update on the report <em>Fabricating Terrorism</em>. This study will be presented to the UK inquiry into British complicity in rendition and torture. </div> <div class="itemFullText"> Over the past eight years, human rights watchdogs, researchers and lawyers recorded a disturbing number of cases involving individuals whose common experiences of detention without charge, illegal transportations to other states without recourse to due process, abuse and torture has pointed to a systematic violation of international laws. The evidence directly implicates the US administration which while denying involvement in torture, partly by redefining its meaning, has admitted that it is overseeing an ‘outsourcing’ process of intelligence gathering in which terrorism suspects are being rendered or transferred for interrogation to countries experienced and cognisant of the cultural needs of the detainees. However, the role of British authorities in this programme has still to be fully revealed. On numerous occasions Government representatives have denied any involvement in the transfer of individuals (rendition) and torture. As the evidence continues to mount it has become apparent that an international chain of abuse, links both the US and UK administrations to breaches of international human rights conventions. After 9/11, under the slogan ‘War on Terror’, there were moves to prioritise national ‘security measures’ over human rights and civil liberties with the ratification of legislation such as the Patriot Act in the USA. Additionally, international alliances were forged involving countries which ranged from the expected, to the startling. A picture of systematic cooperation between the West, Eastern Europe, Asian sub-continent and the Middle East emerged which would allow terrorism suspects to be ‘fast-tracked’ and undergo a variety of illegal interrogation techniques, in order to crush the threat of global terrorism. Evidence is emerging that in waging this war, fabricated accounts of terrorist acts produced through forced or coerced confessions have been used to justify a whole raft of anti-terror legislation, and the illegal actions which are described in this report. This Cageprisoners’ report entitled ‘<em>Fabricating Terrorism III: British Complicity in Renditions and Torture</em>’ is an update of the previous reports <em>Fabricating Terrorism</em> and <em>Fabricating Terrorism II</em>. The original report was compiled using evidence ranging from the testimonies of detainees, existing interviews with officials in the security services, and research. The updated reports focus on the British Government which sees itself as a leader in the field of human rights, in recent years ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) in 2003, questioning whether its commitment to human rights is as strong as its commitment to the USA, and in the process challenging official government denials in regard to rendition and torture. One of the key features of Fabricating Terrorism III, is the case of Farid Hilali. The case demonstrates that the UK security/intelligence officials were complicit in the rendition and torture of individuals as early as two years prior to 9/11. This fact suggests that the unlawful activities of the UK authorities are systematic, rather than rare abuses. Below there are 31 case studies mostly detailing the experiences of British citizens and British residents granted asylum which illustrate the manner in which they have passed through a subterranean system of kidnappings, being ghosted to ‘black sites’ and suffering false imprisonment, abuse and torture during the process. Due to the constraints of space and time these examples represent a much larger number of cases, often undocumented. They illustrate issues of illegality that stem from current British policy on detentions in the ‘War on Terror’ a term itself abandoned but which remains a de facto reality. The aim of this report is to illuminate a path along which all the other detentions are discovered so that the true extent of British involvement in such practices can be highlighted. </div> [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type="1_2" layout="1_2" spacing="" center_content="no" link="" target="_self" min_height="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="left top" background_repeat="no-repeat" hover_type="none" border_size="0" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" dimension_margin="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset="" last="no"][fusion_text] Fabricating Terrorism III free download [/fusion_text][fusion_code]W2FkZF90b19jYXJ0IGlkPSZxdW90OzIzNTMyJnF1b3Q7XQ==[/fusion_code][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" hundred_percent_height="no" hundred_percent_height_scroll="no" hundred_percent_height_center_content="yes" equal_height_columns="no" menu_anchor="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" enable_mobile="no" parallax_speed="0.3" video_mp4="" video_webm="" video_ogv="" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" video_preview_image="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" margin_top="" margin_bottom="" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_2" layout="1_2" spacing="" center_content="no" link="" target="_self" min_height="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="left top" background_repeat="no-repeat" hover_type="none" border_size="0" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" dimension_margin="" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset="" last="no"][fusion_text] <strong>Download the latest Cageprisoners report regarding the targetting and profiling of people from or travelling to the Horn of Africa. Based on cases collected by Cageprisoners researchers, this report points to worrying developments in the War on Terror.</strong> A consequence of the War on Terror (whether intended or not) has been the dramatic increase in xenophobia and racism against those considered to be Muslim in their origin. The use of profiling as a technique has found widespread implementation in domestic policies as government agencies seek to expose plots of international terrorism. Immediately after 9/11, it was those with origins in the Middle East or Indian sub-continent that were detained for the most part due to profiles that international security experts considered to be involved with 'Islamist' violence. Over the years the focus of the profile changed according to circumstances – British born Pakistanis were particularly targeted after the 7/7 bombings. The climate of profiling was exacerbated by statements from the former British Home Office Minister, Hazel Blears, and also the former Chief of British Transport Police, Ian Johnston – both unreservedly declared that people of a “particular description” would be profiled by the police. This policy was mimicked in the US when in 2007, the secretary for US homeland security, Michael Chertoff, called for travel restrictions to be placed on British citizens who had descent from Pakistan –the alleged personification of the terrorist profile. Since 2007, a new profile has emerged, that of Muslims who are from, or linked to the Horn of Africa. Although the US had already sent the Joint Task Force for the Horn of Africa to be stationed at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, in 2003, operations to counter suspected terrorism in the region only really began with the invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia at the end of December 2006. The Ethiopian-Somali conflict much like the US-Afghan one became one of the main fronts of the War on Terror. The result of the conflict was that witnessing of policies and procedures lifted directly from US operations in Afghanistan. The use of secret detention, abuse, rendition flights and use of the term “enemy combatant” were all implemented in dealing with terrorist suspects. The result of the Ethiopian action was very similar to what took place un-der US actions, the widespread abuse of men, women and children who had been unlawfully detained. Like elsewhere in the War on Terror, abuses of human rights were not limited to the arena of conflict, but rather manifested and continue to manifest themselves in different ways. For some, the identity of being Somali has become enough to be watched, while for other, merely wishing to travel to the Horn of Africa lends itself to suspicion. Also the mechanisms by which individuals are abused or intimidated vary greatly, whether it be through the security services disguising themselves as postmen or by detaining an entire people due to their ethnicity. The Horn of Africa Inquisition is the latest report by Cageprisoners to highlight the way in which the War on Terror has impacted profiled com-munities. Based on the testimonies of those who have been affected, the report seeks to provide an overview of the way in which the War on Terror has criminalised those from or even associated with the Horn of Africa. 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