Terror Arrests || Nottingham Uni
Concerned | 17.05.2008 00:23 | Terror War
Terror Arrests on Campus
ConcernedStudent | 16.05.2008 01:46 | Terror War | Nottinghamshire
Two people have been arrested on the University of Nottingham campus under the Anti-terror laws.
According to news.bbc.co.uk:
" Two men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act, police have said.
Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student.
They are being questioned while premises connected to them, including campus property, are searched.
Police said it was a joint operation between Nottinghamshire Police and the Midlands counter-terrorist unit.
Supt Simon Nickless from Nottinghamshire Police said officers had been working alongside community representatives to "offer support and reassurance".
He said the operation has been "low-key" and the community's response to it had been "calm and rational".
Full co-operation
"Feedback is that people accept that this is the sort of operation that is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of communities," he said.
A uniformed presence is in place at the main Trent building, which houses the schools of English, modern languages and philosophy as well as management offices.
Jonathan Ray, a spokesman for the university, said the institution "has been co-operating fully from the outset throughout this inquiry".
"Nottinghamshire Police have stressed that there is no risk to the university community or to the wider public," he said.
"Here, at the institution, we fully accept that this sort of police operation is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of our communities." "
ConcernedStudent
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/05/398954.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7405054.stm
ConcernedStudent | 16.05.2008 01:46 | Terror War | Nottinghamshire
Two people have been arrested on the University of Nottingham campus under the Anti-terror laws.
According to news.bbc.co.uk:
" Two men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act, police have said.
Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student.
They are being questioned while premises connected to them, including campus property, are searched.
Police said it was a joint operation between Nottinghamshire Police and the Midlands counter-terrorist unit.
Supt Simon Nickless from Nottinghamshire Police said officers had been working alongside community representatives to "offer support and reassurance".
He said the operation has been "low-key" and the community's response to it had been "calm and rational".
Full co-operation
"Feedback is that people accept that this is the sort of operation that is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of communities," he said.
A uniformed presence is in place at the main Trent building, which houses the schools of English, modern languages and philosophy as well as management offices.
Jonathan Ray, a spokesman for the university, said the institution "has been co-operating fully from the outset throughout this inquiry".
"Nottinghamshire Police have stressed that there is no risk to the university community or to the wider public," he said.
"Here, at the institution, we fully accept that this sort of police operation is necessary and reasonable for the welfare of our communities." "
ConcernedStudent
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/05/398954.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7405054.stm
Concerned
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Suspicion regarding Police motives
19.05.2008 20:18
I understand that one of the men arrested was a politics student at the University and had downloaded the "Radical Material" for a legitimate postgraduate research project into the methods of Al-Qaeda.
If he were a genuine Al-Queda operative then he be accessing the material in the public domain anyway, so the fact that he has been arrested under the anti-terrorism bill is an over-reaction, which means he can be held for 30 days without trial for doing academic research!
He was in the process of suing Nottinghamshire Police for Unlawful arrest during a protest against the Israeli wall which separates many Palestinian villagers from their land or places of work. This casts suspicion over the Police's source of information about the alleged crime and their motives for his arrest.
That he has been arrested for downloading radical material is a symptom of the current paranoia about islamic terrorism. If this had been in the 80's then downloading material about Irish Republicanism might have illicited a similar response, or in the 70's & 80's the same might be true of downloading the communist party manifesto, where nowadays these would be seen as relatively harmless.
If he were a genuine Al-Queda operative then he be accessing the material in the public domain anyway, so the fact that he has been arrested under the anti-terrorism bill is an over-reaction, which means he can be held for 30 days without trial for doing academic research!
He was in the process of suing Nottinghamshire Police for Unlawful arrest during a protest against the Israeli wall which separates many Palestinian villagers from their land or places of work. This casts suspicion over the Police's source of information about the alleged crime and their motives for his arrest.
That he has been arrested for downloading radical material is a symptom of the current paranoia about islamic terrorism. If this had been in the 80's then downloading material about Irish Republicanism might have illicited a similar response, or in the 70's & 80's the same might be true of downloading the communist party manifesto, where nowadays these would be seen as relatively harmless.
Godfrey
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radical material
17.05.2008 03:51
1) It appears that the two men have been arrested for accessing 'radical material'. (as opposed to anything more serious)
source: Guardian "The arrests are understood to relate to alleged radical material." -
2) It appears that the university may have instigated the investigation.
source: Nottingham Evening Post "Police are thought to have swooped after being contacted by senior university figures."
To add a bit of context, students at the university recently fought a 'Freedom of Speech' campaign after a student was arrested unlawfully for complaining about how a protest was being policed on campus. The arrestee was not even involved in the protest, but voiced his disagreement with the way the officers were handling the situation. (see the footage for yourself -
Perhaps if formal complaints had been made at the time of the previous arrest, including a civil case against the police, then we would not be in the situation we are today. The university administration has been allowed to develop a very casual attitude to the law and the liberty of its students. The protests in response to the previous arrest were very inspiring, but protests are easy to attend and easily ignored. A robust legal response is something the university would find much harder to ignore.
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Murderers of innocent civilians need dealing with,wether BNPnazi leaders or Al
17.05.2008 07:08
People like Griffin & Hamza do try to explode devices against people, sometimes they are used by rogue black operation forces like "gladio"-P2Bologna, the excuse those in power use is it allows them to increase"defence". "Assets" like Hamza or Griffin cannot be controlled?, the best defence is more true democracy.
I would& do my best to stop it with many other IMCers & antifascists, personally on the ground if that means helping a human "coppers" defuse bombs, I will do it, whilst reminding police that technology their bosses rely on could destroy us all.
Yep,Legal complaints are definetely a good way of protesting as well as demonstrating, both essential. In general its best if we deal with any fundamentalists for now within our own communities whilst we live in a warmongering system which seems to want to divide & rule the world.
As many police admit offline the system we live in is still corrupt& must be changed for the better, politically correct fascist veneers are used to polish,divide & rule.
Let good people cooperate beyond the current system & use all good things in our power to do so.
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