{"id":54,"date":"2008-02-14T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/decision-to-free-five-may-help-scots-appeal\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T17:14:13","slug":"decision-to-free-five-may-help-scots-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/decision-to-free-five-may-help-scots-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision To Free Five May Help Scot&#8217;s Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland\/Decision-to-free-five-in.3776169.jp\">The Scotsman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Scottish student jailed for terrorism-related offences last year hopes a Court of Appeal decision in England may help to free him. Five men jailed for similar crimes walked free yesterday. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, sitting with two other judges, quashed their convictions and ordered their release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/appeal-frees-5-students-jailed-for-jihadist-material\/\">we covered this story too<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling will be studied by lawyers planning an appeal against the conviction of Mohammed Atif Siddique, a Scottish student jailed for eight years for possessing and distributing terrorism-related materials on the internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Last night, Aamer Anwar, Siddique&#8217;s lawyer, said he would be meeting Imran Khan, the solicitor who represents the five freed men, within weeks. &#8220;This decision will be scrutinised by us to see if there are any implications,&#8221; Mr Anwar said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I commented previously, downloading such material should not be a crime. If there is an act of violence being planned, that can be prosecuted as the equivalent of &#8220;Conspiracy to commit <em>X<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Aamer Anwar is a human rights lawyer and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/studentinformation\/rector\/\">current candidate<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasgowstudent.net\/about\/rector\/\">Rectorship<\/a> of the University of Glasgow. He is expected to come and speak to the GU Amnesty International society next Tuesday at 6PM. He is facing charges of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasgowguardian.co.uk\/viewArticle.php?articleID=186&#038;categoryID=1\">contempt of court<\/a> for his defence of Siddique, which has lead to <a href=\"http:\/\/defendaamer.wordpress.com\/\">campaign to defend him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Scotsman: A Scottish student jailed for terrorism-related offences last year hopes a Court of Appeal decision in England may help to free him. Five men jailed for similar crimes walked free yesterday. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, sitting with two other judges, quashed their convictions and ordered their release. (we covered this story <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2008\/02\/decision-to-free-five-may-help-scots-appeal\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[80,79,66,78],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}