[R-P] [estargeo] Estudiantes arrestados en Nottingham

Lun Mayo 26 09:17:33 MDT 2008

Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:19 -0700
From: jeronimo_montero en yahoo.com.ar
To: estargeo en elistas.net; graduados_ar en gruposyahoo.com.ar
Subject: [estargeo] Estudiantes arrestados en Nottingham

Buenas, perdon pero no tengo tiempo de traducirlo, lo mando igual porque es extremadamente grave. Basicamente lo que dice es que un estudiante de posgrado de la Facultad de Politica y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Nottingham bajo de una pagina web del gobierno norteamericano un manual de entrenamiento de Al Qaeda porque esta haciendo su tesis sobre extremismo islamico. Luego de bajarla se la mando a un colega en la Facultad de Lenguas Modernas (luego vino la correcion al mail de abajo, que dice que es de ingenieria) para que se la imprima. Otro colega vio el material en la sala de impresiones del Dpto y le aviso a la universidad, la que a su vez le aviso a la policia. Los dos fueron arrestados por seis dias sin cargo alguno bajo la ley de terrorismo del 2000, les hayanaron las casas y ahora a uno de ellos lo van a deportar.

Esto es extremadamente grave, claro que en America Latina no pasa esto pero pasan otras cosas, y es bueno saber que en Inglaterra tambien pasa esto (gracias a donia Maggie Tatcher). El diario The Guardian le esta dando una cobertura interesante 

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2282045,00.html

Hace unos dias, tras la liberacion de los dos, los estudiantes organizaron una manifestacion y una sentada en la calle, adonde leyeron el manual publicamente. Luego vino la noticia de la deportacion (yo no me quedaria en ningun pais que me trate de esa manera, pero es injusto y hay una gran movilizacion para detener la deportacion).

Quien quiera saber un poco mas por favor que me avise. Saludos,

Jeronimo

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Da: Nilsen Alf [mailto:Alf.Nilsen en nottingham.ac.uk]
Inviato: gio 22/05/2008 17:24
Oggetto: Correction - Student and Staff arrests at Nottingham University - Please Circulate!!!

Dear Friends – I’m writing to call your attention to a recent incident at the University of Nottingham, where a one of our Graduate Students at the School of Politics and International Relations and an administrative member of staff at the Department of Engineering were arrested by armed police under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Their alleged “crime” was that the graduate student had downloaded an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government website for research purposes, as he’s writing his MA dissertation on Islamic extremism and international terrorist networks. He had then sent this to his friend in the Department of Engineering for printing. The printed material had been spotted by other staff and reported to the University authorities who passed on the information to the police. The two were then arrested by armed police on May 14 and held for six days without charge, before being released without charge on May 20. During the six days they were imprisoned, the men had their homes raided and their families harassed by the police. It is worth noticing that in talking to one of my colleagues, a police officer remarked that the incident would never have occurred if the persons involved had been “blonde, Swedish PhD students” (the two men were of British-Pakistani and Algerian backgrounds respectively).

The incident was recently reported in the Times Higher Education Supplement online:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402125&c=2

Needless to say, this raises hugely important issues both about academic freedom and civil liberties. Obviously, there is the issue that for those of us involved in research on contentious issues we will by necessity have to consult primary materials of a controversial nature, and the fact that the material is controversial should not lead to it being deemed as illegitimate research material. Moreover, we should not under any circumstances have to fear for infringements upon our civil liberties as a consequence of doing our jobs. Moreover, it goes without saying that the university should guarantee the academic freedom, freedom of speech and expression, and civil liberties of all members of staff and students, irrespective of ethnic and religious background or political beliefs!

I would be most grateful if you could circulate this e-mail as widely as possible in the interest of raising awareness and attention about this incident and the wider issues of academic freedom that it gives rise to, to as many of your friends and colleagues as possible! I would of course also be very grateful if any of you would be willing to write to the University of Nottingham to express your concern about this issue. If you are willing to do so, please contact me as soon as possible.

Regards

Alf

Dr. Alf Gunvald Nilsen
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