From the landmark employment tribunal victory of Professor David Miller to the Safety of Rwanda Bill, recent events in the realm of UK law are revealing the political and legal discourses of unaccountable power and control. It’s been happening a while, but the transformation of the image of Kenneth (now Lord) Clarke,
Arzu discusses the proscription of the avowedly non-violent group Hizb ut-Tahrir by the UK government and what it means for dissenting voices in the UK Today’s proscription of Hizb u-Tahrir under the Terrorism Act 2000 is a new low, even for the UK. I wrote on 7 January that the push towards
As talk of the UK government’s desire to ‘define’ extremism resurfaces, Arzu looks at how this may or may not impact the coming year. I have decided to review certain of my older articles and comments for the coming year. How much of what I thought or found still holds? Have there
As narratives of belonging get narrower and narrower, Arzu Merali argues that Germany provides both worrying precedents as well as ways to move beyond the arguments that to be a citizen in the current age means to be and believe only one thing.* If this were a story or a play, there would
Arzu Merali interviewed on Real News Network about IHRC’s decision to no longer take part on consultations with the British government over anti-terrorism laws and so-called deradicalization Read the transcript below the video. SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The independent reviewer of
When there is no right way to review the wrong laws, diversity in counter-terrorism or policing leadership doesn’t matter* Despite – despite – everything, I think most civil society activists working on the anti-terror laws and its concomitant baggage will miss David Anderson QC, the outgoing independent reviewer of terrorism legislation. At
Presented by Arzu Merali at the final plenary of the Prevent, Islamophobia and Civil Liberties national conference in June 2016. In it Arzu looks at how the narratives that fuel Islamophobic street level violence and establishment attacks on Muslims are concretised by the narratives of Prevent. She argues that the capture of
The British premier’s policy announcement of funding to teach Muslim women English has made me want to stop speaking the language I love* There’s the personal and public – a reimagining of the feminist standpoint if you like. It’s the way I see David Cameron’s speech announcing the need (and coincidentally the funding) to
Arzu Merali was on of the signatories of this statement highlighting concerns and dangers regarding the statutory implementation of the Prevent strategy. The original can be read here. We, the undersigned, take issue with the government’s PREVENT strategy and its statutory implementation through the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 for the following reasons: 1.
I spoke on this panel convened in the immediate aftermath of the attacks in Paris in January 2015. Full details (and the full playlist of this panel) follow under the video of my talk. From the IHRC Website The Islamic Human Rights Commission held a last minute public meeting, ‘What
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