Category Civil Liberties
NIAC’s New President Jamal Abdi [The Iranian]
Profile on new President of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Jamal Abdi. First published in The Iranian on 18 May 2018: November last year, in Virginia’s Fairfax county, an unarmed man in a car was gunned down after police officers pursued him in his vehicle. The man was Bijan Ghaisar, a 25 year-old American […]
The Miranda effect: Rescuing human rights from the surveillance state
A very rare turn happened in the UK courts this week – the Master of the Rolls sat at the front bench of the highest body of redress the nation’s sovereignty affords and held that a piece of UK legislation was incompatible with our human rights. Except it was caveated – in the very least […]
Mashriq 
It’s time to end immigration detention [The New Arab]
First published in The New Arab on 15 September 2016: Surrounded by barbed wire, 24-hour security and electric fences, Yarl’s Wood looks and sounds like a prison – but it is Britain’s notorious “immigration detention facility”. Having faced a great deal of public criticism in the past year, on Saturday 10 September there was another […]