{"id":5908,"date":"2016-05-23T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/counterterrorismbill"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:10:46","slug":"concerns-raised-about-proposed-counter-extremism-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2016\/05\/23\/concerns-raised-about-proposed-counter-extremism-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised about proposed Counter Extremism Bill"},"content":{"rendered":" 22 May 2016\r\n\r\nToday the British Institute of Human Rights, together with the Muslim Council of Britain and other civil liberties, rights groups, faith &amp; community groups, journalists, academics, unions, and practitioners, including in policing, has published a joint statement on the Counter Extremism Bill announced in the Queen&rsquo;s Speech last week.\r\n\r\nPublished in today's Observer (read the story here), the statment reads:\r\n\r\nWe are a cross section of British society who believe in the necessity of keeping our nation safe and secure. &nbsp; To defeat the scourge of terrorism we need a strategy underpinned by a soaring confidence in our values and the society we seek to build together. As such, we are gravely concerned that the proposed Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill will feed the very commodity that the terrorists thrive on: fear.&nbsp; We must instead put forward proposals that show those who seek to undermine us that we value our freedom more than they cherish fear... \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bihr.org.uk\/News\/counterterrorismbill\">British Institute of Human Rights News <\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 22 May 2016<\/p>\n<p>Today the British Institute of Human Rights, together with the Muslim Council of Britain and other civil liberties, rights groups, faith &amp; community groups, journalists, academics, unions, and practitioners, including in policing, h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}