(Middle East Eye) A coalition of leading civil society organisations has urged the UK Labour government to overhaul counter-extremism policies including the controversial Prevent programme, Middle East Eye can exclusively report.
In a letter sent to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, the organisations also called for the suspension of a new definition of extremism proposed in March by then-communities minister Michael Gove under the previous Conservative government.
Signatories of the letter included Prevent Watch, Amnesty International, Liberty, Medact, Rights & Security International and the Runnymede Trust.
It comes after Cooper recently commissioned a new review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy and following a significant United Nations report last month which criticised the UK’s counter-terrorism policies and called for the suspension of Prevent, as well as advocating reparations for people abused under it.
