The Rules of the Game: Detention, Deportation, Disappearance - Hardcover

Qureshi, Asim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850659699 ISBN 13: 9781850659693

Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2010

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Book by Quereshi Asim

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'When we arrived after the plane journey, they untied my blindfold. I found there were women and children on one side and men on the otherside of the plane. They were saying, "they are taking us to Mogadishu". The Kenyans who brought me there were still here. I was crying and screaming and telling them to let me go as I had my passport and that I was from Dubai and they should send me back. One man tried me to keep me quiet by saying, "you are coming with us." ...In total there were 22 women and children. Apart from me and another lady, everyone else was 3-8 months pregnant.'-statement by Kamilya Tuweil to Cageprisoners, Dubai, 2007

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In the aftermath of the suicide bombings on London's transport infrastructure in July 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that 'the rules of the game have changed'. He referred to how his government planned to respond to the attacks, but few people at the time anticipated that counter-terrorism would become synonymous with circumventing time-honoured concepts such as the rule of law. It is associated now with words such as profiling, incommunicado detention, rendition and torture."Rules of the Game" investigates global counter terrorism through the perspective of those affected by such measures. Asim Qureshi's indefatigable research took him to East Africa, Pakistan, Sudan, the USA, Bosnia and Canada to record the testimonies of the victims of these detention policies. He analyses the effects of global counter-terrorism not as individual policies or pieces of legislation, but rather as parts of a larger phenomenon that has uniformly changed the way governments view justice and eroded fundamental norms in pursuit of often phantom terrorists. Among the issues he discusses are profiling of Muslims by security services and concurrent mass arrests; the use of detention without charge, control orders and incommunicado detention; rendition; domestic detention policies in North America; and how the establishment of Guantanamo Bay has affected global perceptions of justice and imprisonment.

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• Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1850659699
• ISBN 13: 9781850659693
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236