'Deport, Deprive, Extradite - 21st Century State Extremism' Book Launch
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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In 2012 five Muslim men - Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and Abu Hamza - were extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism-related charges. Fahad Hashmi was deported a few years before. Abid Naseer and Haroon Aswat would follow shortly. They were subject to pre-trial incarceration for up to seventeen years, police brutality, secret trials, secret evidence, long-term detention in solitary confinement, citizenship deprivation and more.
Join Nisha Kapoor, Malia Bouattia and Ken Fero for a discussion about Nisha's new book 'Deport Deprive Extradite. 21st Century State Extremism' published by Verso, which draws on the stories of these men as starting points to explore what they illuminate about the disciplinary features of state power and its securitising conditions.
As part of the event we will hold a film showing of 'The Eyes of Aliyah' and 'Aaden and the Spiders', two short films both directed by Ken Fero for the Deport Deprive Extradite Project which document the multiple ways in which authoritarianism is being cultivated and extended in Britain through the ongoing War on Terror.
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This event is part of the School of Law's 25th Anniversary celebrations. The School of Law, Birkbeck was founded in 1992 as a Department of Law with three members of academic staff. Over the last twenty-five years it has become a School comprising the Departments of Law and Criminology as well as the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, four research Centres, 40 members of staff and an overall student body of over 1,000. The School is proud of being a pioneer in establishing and developing a hub for the field of critical legal studies. While our national and international reputation has been forged through critical legal research, more recently we have gained recognition for critical criminological and activist research, socio-legal scholarship and policy-engaged empirical research. In recognition of this the last Research Excellence Framework exercise ranked us as being in the top 10 law schools in the UK and in the top 3 in London, while our research environment was judged conducive to producing research of the highest quality.
In this our 25th Anniversary year we will be holding a series of events reflecting on our history and successes as well as looking forward to the opportunities and challenges facing critical legal and criminological teaching and scholarship in the 21st century. Find out more about the 25th Anniversary celebrations here.
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