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Zin Derfoufi

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Zin Derfoufi is a grassroots campaigner with a particular interest in civil liberties and working towards building solid and positive police-community relations. He is currently working on making the use of schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, the UK's most wide ranging stop and search power, more transparent, effective and proportionate

May 2011

  • Police at Heathrow

    liberty central
    double quotation markTime for an independent review of the Terrorism Act's schedule 7

    Zin Derfoufi
    Zin Derfoufi: Like section 44, schedule 7 of the act is far too broad, overused and leaves innocent people feeling humiliated and criminalised

September 2009

  • liberty central
    double quotation markWhat about my DNA?

    Zin Derfoufi
    Zin Derfoufi: Why don't the Home Office's DNA proposals distinguish between people arrested and those merely questioned?

May 2009

  • liberty central
    double quotation markMI5: leave young Muslims alone

    Zin Derfoufi

    Zin Derfoufi: MI5's harassment of Muslim students is not exposing terrorists – it's just alienating innocent people