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'''Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC)''' is a voluntary grassroots organisation that campaigns against Britain's terrorism laws, including detention without charge or trial, and other laws that have the effect of criminalising political activity. SACC works in solidarity with those communities most affected by the anti-terrorism laws and it has also campaigned on a number of other human rights issues closely related to the 'war on terror'.<ref>Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, A Permanent State of Terror?: Editors Estella Schmid and David Morgan, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), 2003,in association with Index on Censorship, {{ISBN
==Background==
SACC was established in early 2003 in response to the arrest of Algerian men at Hogmanay in Edinburgh on terrorism charges, which were subsequently dropped.<ref>Scottish terror suspects 'escaped justice' Michael Settle and Billy Briggs http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/scottish-terror-suspects-escaped-justice-1.28980</ref>
SACC is affiliated to Britain's [[Stop the War]] campaign and endorses the call for UK Troops to come home from Afghanistan immediately. Since its inception SACC has been closely linked to Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC). In 2005 a submission from Ann Alexander, Scotland Against Criminalising Communities appears as Appendix 9 of the twelfth report of session 2005/6 of the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights about the inhumane treatment of 4 men under house arrest ([[control order]]) in the south of England
SACC is also affiliated to [[Unite Against Fascism]] (UAF) and a number of other organisations. [[Cageprisoners]] is a human rights group that SACC regularly works with and together they organised the Scottish leg of a speaking tour, ''Two Sides One Story'', by two former Guantanamo detainees [[Moazzam Begg]],<ref>Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combatant, Pocket Books, London, 2006, {{ISBN
==Campaigns==
[[Scotland|Scottish]] campaigning lawyer [[Aamer Anwar]], was supported by SACC when he was tried and later acquitted for contempt of court because of a statement he made on the steps of the High Court in Edinburgh on behalf of his client [[Mohammed Atif
The alleged [[CIA]] Aircraft flying into Scotland that were linked to [[extraordinary rendition]] has been other of SACC's campaign issues.<ref>
The next Scottish Census in 2011 involves contract for work by CACI Ltd and SACC hosted an online petition that called for the contract to be cancelled as CACI Ltd's parent company CACI International has ongoing litigation in the United States by [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] based around torture allegations in relation to a former interrogation contract at Abu Graib prison in Iraq
CAMPACC (2005) states that: 'The ‘War on Terror' promotes a racist culture of suspicion towards migrant and Muslim communities. It generates and manipulates public fears to justify a perpetual state of war.'
Lord Carlile's review of the definition of terrorism for the UK government in 2006 received a submission from SACC.<ref>Lord Carlile publishes review of the definition of terrorism http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=377&catid=43</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|sacc.org.uk}}
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