CAGE has been consistently campaigning against PREVENT before it became mainstream. The early efforts of CAGE and a few grassroots organisations/activists successfully turned the tide on PREVENT.
🧵of our achievements since 2011
▶️ 2011
CAGE publishes its report “Good Muslim Bad Muslim: A response to the revised PREVENT strategy”, warning against the government’s efforts to impose acceptable religious practice and belief to the Muslim community.
CAGE jointly launches the #StopTheBill campaign as a community initiative to stop the Counter Terrorism and Security Act which would turn Prevent into law.
🔴February 2015
The CTS act is passed, Prevent becomes law. Millions of civil servants are now obliged to act as informants, and receive a secretive 2h-Prevent training.
▶️ March 2015
In response to the passing of the CTS bill, CAGE launches a nationwide tour on the new bill and Prevent to empower and educate community members on their rights.
▶️ July 2015
A first of its kind, CAGE publishes leaked secretive PREVENT training DVD in the interest of greater public debate and scrutiny.
CAGE releases “Failing our communities: A case-study approach to understanding PREVENT”, presenting real life cases of organisations and individuals targeted under PREVENT.
CAGE organises a joint statement signed by over 360 academics, activists and scholars explaining why PREVENT will have a chilling effect on free speech.
This was one of the first public calls for the abolition of Prevent.
CAGE supports students in drafting an NUS resolution to condemn Prevent. PM David Cameron attacks NUS and CAGE in Parliament for their joint-campaign against Prevent.
▶️ 2016
CAGE participates in a nationwide tour across British universities to share information on the impact of Prevent in curbing academic freedom, and the chilling effect it will have on free speech.
In response, the tabloid press mounts a concerted attack on CAGE.
▶️ January 2016
CAGE publishes “Consent denied: How PREVENT questions children without parental involvement”
CAGE publishes “We are Completely Independent”, a report exposing how the Home Office have disseminated propaganda to the Muslim community, working with top PR agencies and new media companies via seemingly “grassroots” organisations.
CAGE publishes “The 'science' of pre-crime: The secret 'radicalisation' study underpinning PREVENT”, exposing the weakness of the secret study behind Prevent and revealing for the first time the 22 factors used by Prevent (ERG22+ guidance).
Over 140 academics sign a joint letter organised by CAGE criticising the lack of science ‘science’ behind Prevent, and call for the publication of the classified ERG22+ study, which underpins the entire PREVENT agenda.
CAGE publishes “Blacklisted: The secretive Home Office Unit silencing voices of dissent”, a report uncovering the doing of the two opaque units influenced by far-rights groups, assisting the government in its Prevent strategy.
CAGE publishes “Separating Families - How PREVENT seeks the removal of children”, documenting how family courts in the UK have removed and attempted to remove children’s custody from their parents, using the discredited ERG22+ framework.
17 leading UK human rights and community groups, including CAGE, issue a joint letter condemning the government's appointment of William Shawcross as the independent reviewer of the Prevent strategy.
550 Muslim scholars, community leaders, civil society organisations, mosque councils and national and regional bodies, issue a statement condemning PREVENT, and rejecting the appointment of William Shawcross to lead the review of the policy.
.@Policy_Exchange and David Cameron are justifiably rattled that their flagship trojan horse policy for authoritarianism and coercive state action without any due process has been thoroughly exposed.
🧵Tomorrow @Policy_Exchange will publish a report with a foreword by David Cameron desperately defending the Islamophobic PREVENT strategy and smearing *only Muslim organisations.
An amazing line up of former prisoners introduced including the Clive Stafford Smith, the man who fought so hard and from the very first days for the freedom of Guantanamo prisoners.
An urgent message from Sh Haitham on the invasion of Al-Aqsa by settler-colonisers
This is an urgent call to all Muslims around the world, and the UK in particular, to defend al-Aqsa. Right now there is practically a war taking place there with the Muslims,
Palestinians and Aqsan people who are defending Aqsa with their own lives, against extremist groups who are unfortunately being supported by the occupation forces, in order to raid al-Aqsa and occupy it
This is taking place now.while we’re talking on the 26th night of Ramadan
the 26th night of Ramadan 1442 (Friday 7th May 2021).
I urge all Muslims, all Imams, to make special du’a in their qunūt in witr for al-Aqsa and for the people that are defending al-Aqsa. Please include them in your du’a. We do not want al-Aqsa to be lost.
🌍 Today, 36 NGO's from 13 countries take legal action against France at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for systematically entrenching Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims.
Professor Lukman Thalib and his son Ismail Talib, have arrived in Turkey where they will receive urgent medical attention after nearly six months of secret detention in Qatar.
🧵However, a series of pressing questions have emerged around the complicity of Australia ⤵️
▶️ Australian authorities knew of the arrest of the two men as early as the 28th July 2020, one day after their arrest.
▶️ An Australian embassy official told the family they did not see any visible effects of torture and had no concerns despite Prof Lukman making them aware.
Furthermore, we have recorded the following torture methods:
Then men were held in stress positions, faced threats against family members; sleep deprivation and sensory bombardment; solitary confinement; and being gassed with noxious gasses to dull their senses.
We received one of those Sunday paper comment requests from The @Telegraph's Steve Bird. Some counter-terror 'folk' have gone into meltdown over a book our research director @AsimCP is due to publish 🔽.
Serious questions need to be asked of the editors at The @Telegraph as to why they are participating in suppressing freedom of expression by commissioning a story that effectively seeks to ban a book before its even published!
Some usual suspects are alleged to be behind this story (demonstrating their commitment Cointelpro/FBI type attempts to suppress dissent).