Rizwaan Sabir
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday September 16 2008 14:30 BST
For millions of people in the UK, anti-terror legislation is rather distant, its finer points discussed only by politicians, specialist lawyers and the like. We hear about attempts to introduce tough laws; we hear about new arrests, and we get on with our lives. But for my friend [...]

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Rizwaan Sabir, the postgraduate student of politics who was arrested with Hicham for his research on political extremism, has given an interview to CNN about the circumstances and consequences of their arrests.

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Jo Glanville writes on the Index of Censorship:
“The problem with this kind of terrorism prevention is that it constrains us all. There is no room for intellectual curiosity, for flirting with unfashionable ideology or even for engaging in serious research on the topic: Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza were reported to the police by their [...]

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Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the Universities and Colleges Union, wrote a piece in the Guardian on Tuesday, explaining the disastrous situation for research into terrorism highlighted by Hicham’s arrest.
“The arrest of a student and a staff member at Nottingham University under the Terrorism Act in May,” she writes, “highlighted the levels of confusion [...]

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Wednesday’s Guardian featured two letters from readers reacting to Hicham’s piece
Hicham Yezza (Britain’s terror laws have left me and my family shattered, August 18) raises forcefully the question of why there has been only moderate opposition to the erosion of habeas corpus. I fear that one reason is that detention has so far been used [...]

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