Paul Donovan argues that anti terror laws are more about attacking basic rights than keeping the peace.

Ben Hayes argues that recent EU legislation follows the recent trend towards repression of free speech and thought in the west.

How else to describe a ruling that deprives the Chagossians of a right of return so the US can use Diego Garcia for ‘renditions’, asks Duncan Campbell

Vicky Short and Paul Mitchell discuss new evidence arising from the inquest on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes which suggests that he was shot even though he was known to be unarmed.

Press Release from Liberty on the defeat of the 42-days proposal in the House of Lords

Human Rights Watch has written an open letter to the British Government on the implementation of the recent UN Human Rights recommendations on counterterrorism policies

A proposed EU law on ‘public provocation’ to terrorism could criminalise widely held political views, but has barely raised a murmur, writes Ben Hayes.

Patricia da Silva Armani is the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes. She spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the eve of the coroner’s inquest convened into the innocent Brazilian’s brutal murder by a police gun squad.

Tom Bangay on why Brown’s Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance society.

A grotesque case of legal bullying using a 13th-Century law shows that in some respects we still haven’t shaken off feudalism.

In a plea from Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed talks of “betrayal” by the UK.

The Morning Star reflect on crime reduction charity Nacro’s decision to get into bed with private security contractor G4S and bid to run two prisons.

Andy Worthington on the High Court’s significant judgment in favour of British resident Binyam Mohamed last week. Judges ruled that the British government had an obligation to hand over evidence in its possession relating to his rendition and torture. The Court’s second judgment ruled that the government’s attempts to prevent disclosure for reasons of “national security” were insufficient.

Paul Stuart and Paul Mitchell report on Labour’s proposals to hugely increase state surveillance. They describe the government’s implementation of new measures under the pretext of the “war on terror” which will intrude ever deeper into the private lives of people who are viewed as potential criminals rather than citizens.

The outcome of the British High Court’s hearing on the case of Binyam Mohamed may open an important crack in the wall of secrecy that surrounds the CIA’s rendition, detention, and interrogation abuses, writes Joanne Mariner.

Yuri Prassad, Simon Assaf and Simon Basketter warn that continuing police discrimination against black youths, as displayed recently at Notting Hill Carnival, is liable to have explosive consequences further down the line.

Richard Tyler reports on the recent High Court ruling that the British government must disclose information that could support the claim that torture was used to extract confessions from Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident who has been held in Guantánamo Bay since September 2004.

Tom Griffin reports on the recent High Court judgement which ruled that British security services colluded in the unlawful detention and interrogation of Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident detained in Pakistan six years ago.

Chris Williams reports on the government’s decision to press ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a massive central silo for all UK communications data.

The Terrorism Act has again proved to be much too broadly defined for comfort, writes Jo Glanville