[ October 12, 2008; 2:00 am to 8:00 pm. ] Sunday 12th Oct – 6PM - Broadway Cinema (City Centre)
With an introduction by Prof Alex Danchev (University of Nottingham)

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What is Imperialism?
We’ve all heard the word, but what does it mean? Here, Dr. Andrew Robinson looks at the economic and social history of imperialism, examining the work of key thinkers, and asks whether imperialism is still around us.

The latest issue of Ceasefire Magazine, which is edited by Hicham Yezza, includes a series of articles [...]

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The final film in the Human Rights Film Series at the Broadway Cinema, ‘Elite Squad’ (Tropa de Elite), will be shown on Sunday 26th October at 6pm.
José Padilha’s high-octane thriller follows Nascimento, the captain of an elite military-style squad that fights police corruption and drug trafficking in the Rio favelas. Hellbent on leaving his job [...]

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Hicham Yezza is to speak at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union One World Week on Thursday 23rd October. The talk, entitled ‘Human rights post 9/11‘ will take place at 7pm in room C50 in the Portland Building on the main campus.

One World Week, running from 20th to 24th October, is a week of [...]

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Hicham has been invited by Amnesty International to give a talk this tuesday (21st Oct) about the erosion of civil liberties. The talk will be to discuss his case and the role of the University, the Police and the Home Office
Venue: The Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street [...]

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The third film in the Human Rights Film Series at the Broadway Cinema is ‘The Edge of Heaven’ (Auf der anderen Seite) on Sunday 19th October at 6pm.
An intricately plotted, multi-layered drama, The Edge of Heaven moves from Germany to Turkey and back again, and captures the ways that a globalized world can break our [...]

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Moazzam Begg, bestselling author of “Enemy Combatant” and former Guantanamo Bay detainee, will speak at the University on the “War on Terror, Islamophobia and Civil Liberties”.
Date/Time: Thursday 16th September @ 6.30PM
Venue: Room B63, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham University Main Campus

Free Entry

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Hicham was invited on the 21st September to speak at this year’s Labour Party Annual Conference in Manchester. He appeared at a meeting on a panel alongside Nottingham South MP Alan Simpson, legendary politician Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP as well as prominent Trade Union leaders. The meeting was entitled “Do not let your mind [...]

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The latest issue of Impact Magazine - the official magazine of the University of Nottingham Students’ Union - debates the rights and wrongs of the arrests of Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir at the University of Nottingham in May.
The Debate
Published in News on 14 August 2008
What happened? On May 15 2008, two university members - [...]

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Hicham’s legal case is still ongoing after a second hearing was held on September 3rd at Nottingham Crown Court. The hearing went well and a date for a “legal arguments” hearing and a trial has been set for the end of November 2008. In a positive development, the more serious of the two charges that [...]

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