In his widely criticised review of the UK government’s Prevent strategy for countering non-violence extremism, William Shawcross levelled several mendacious accusations against MEND. While MEND and many other Muslim and civic organisations already rejected Shawcross’ findings owing in no...
Yesterday, the Government released the delayed “independent” review of Prevent by William Shawcross. Instead of dealing with the many failings of the Prevent Policy, the review has turned out to be a blatant attempt to smear MEND and other law-abiding Muslim organisations. The report remarkably...
MEND condemns the blatant Islamophobic attack on Muslim critics of the PREVENT strategy and the Shawcross review into the strategy, launched today by David Cameron and Right-Wing Think Tank Policy Exchange and further propagated by press outlets. In recent years there has been sustained criticism...
Tory MP, Jonathan Gullis, has said during a fringe meeting at the party’s conference last month that anyone using the term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to the UK Government’s controversial counterterror programme, PREVENT. He then added that teachers who criticise the...
The recent referral of an 11 year-old Muslim school pupil to PREVENT, after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion, has thrown further light on the problems within the UK’s counterterror programme. Such enforcement of PREVENT does significant damage to...
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, express grave concern at the UK government’s appointment of William Shawcross as the new reviewer of the counter-terrorism strategy Prevent. Shawcross has been appointed to replace Lord Carlile, who was removed from the post following a legal...
Today, the Government announced that William Shawcross is to be the new Independent Reviewer of PREVENT. This comes as a devastating announcement to all those whom had hoped for a truly independent and transparent review into a fundamentally flawed strategy that continues to detrimentally...
Today, the Government announced that William Shawcross is to be the new Independent Reviewer of PREVENT. This comes as a devastating announcement to all those whom had hoped for a truly independent and transparent review into a fundamentally flawed strategy that continues to...
William Shawcross is the reported frontrunner for leading an independent review of PREVENT, casting concerns over the potential credibility of the review given his longstanding history of propagating Islamophobic views. The nomination of someone who has so prominently platformed anti-Muslim...
It has recently emerged that colleges and universities in Greater Manchester drew up a data-sharing agreement after the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 with the help of counter-terrorism police and the Department for Education (DfE) to share details of students who had been referred to PREVENT....
