Tarek Mehanna's Sentencing Statement

Read to Judge O’Toole during his sentencing, April 12th 2012.

In the name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

Exactly four years ago this month I was finishing my work shift at a local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents. They said that I had a choice to make: I could do things the easy way, or I could do them the hard way. The “easy “ way, as they explained, was that I would become an informant for the government, and if I did so I would never see the inside of a courtroom or a prison cell. As for the hard way, this is it. Here I am, having spent the majority of the four years since then in a solitary cell the size of a small closet, in which I am locked down for 23 hours each day.

Sheikh Cameron in Indonesia - Democracy by the Barrel of a Gun

By Majed Iqbal

David Cameron’s Far-East trip hit headlines today across all major news sites as he delivered a Speech at an Islamic university in Jakarta in the worlds largest Muslim populated country.

Cameron was forthright in teaching Indonesia’s 240 million population what ‘Real Islam’ was all about. Making reference to the rise of Islamic Parties in the Middle East, Post-Arab Spring he said “If Indonesia can succeed, it can lead the world in showing how democracy can offer an alternative to the dead-end choice of dictatorship or extremism,”

CagePrisoners Event Review: Governments Prevent Strategy - Surveillance And Entrapment Of Muslims

April 6th 2012 Venue: Shahi Qila Restaurant, Blackburn

CagePrisoners ventured ‘up north’ with a clutch of well informed speakers to talk about their work in the context of the Governments Prevent Strategy. The event was well attended by a cross section of the local community, as well as some further afield, including convert to Islam, Daud Musa Pidcock the Chairman of the Islamic Party of Britain, and former Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police - Tony Farrell.