April 2017

Together Against Prevent

Far-right Polish MEP barred from London university ‘under anti-terror laws’| Luke Dolan, TalkRadio
http://talkradio.co.uk/news/far-right-polish-mep-barred-london-university-under-anti-terror-laws-17042713091

World’s longest ambulance convoy’ defiant in face of police ‘harassment’ | Amandla Thomas-Johnson, Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/world-s-longest-ambulance-convoy-defiant-face-police-harassment-589946840

Is there any place for counterterrorism in the NHS? | Anna Gulland. British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1998

NHS not doing enough to help police prevent terror attacks, warns Met’s counterterrorism chief | Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/26/nhs-not-enough-help-police-prevent-terror-attacks-warns-mets/

Report signs of friends’ radicalisation, say UCL students | William McLennan, Camden New Journal
http://camdennewjournal.com/article/report-signs-of-friends-radicalisation-say-ucl-students

‘Prevent’, free speech and antisemitism | Walter Armbrust, Open Democracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/walter-armbrust/prevent-free-speech-and-antisemitism

Low number of Scots pupils referred to anti-terror Prevent | Shan Ross, The Scotsman
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/low-number-of-scots-pupils-referred-to-anti-terror-prevent-1-4414753

Extent of Prevent counter-terror surveillance of Scottish society to remain secret after FoI ruling | David Jamieson, Common Space
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10707/extent-prevent-counter-terror-surveillance-scottish-society-remain-secret-after-foi

British government uses failed Prevent as a bargaining tool in Brexit | CAGE
https://cage.ngo/article/british-government-uses-failed-prevent-as-a-bargaining-tool-in-brexit/

My ‘ethnic profiling’ arrest has shown me I’ll always be treated differently in the UK | Anonymous, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/04/ethnic-profiling-arrest-prevent-police-terror-suspect

Met police investigating Muslim man’s wrongful arrest over terrorism | Diane Taylor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/03/met-police-investigating-muslim-man-wrongful-arrest-terrorism