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Wed, 08/17/2011 - 12:23
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Human Rights Groups Condemn Crackdown on British Protestors
TEHRAN (FNA)- Human rights groups expressed concern about the brutal behavior of the British police towards protestors, and criticized the severity of some of the sentences handed down to people involved in last week's unrests.
On Tuesday two men were jailed for four years after pleading guilty to inciting disorder via social networking sites - the longest sentences so far.
Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, who were arrested last week, were sentenced at Chester Crown Court.
Their jail terms are the most severe yet to be handed out by the courts following the riots in London and other British cities.
"The public disturbances are seen as an aggravating factor and that is fair enough... But there seems to be a complete lack of proportionality to some of the sentences," Andrew Neilson from the Howard League for Penal Reform said.
"These make a mockery of proportionality, which is a key principle of the justice system."
Many human rights advocates condemned the continued and severe violation of human rights by the British police, and urged London to stop massacre of the youth during unrests in the British capital and other cities.
"The current situation in Britain fully demonstrates the violation of human rights and nullifies all the claims Britain and the European and American countries have made (on advocating human rights)," Head of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told reporters on Sunday.
He added that Britons and Europeans who have always claimed to be a supporter of the minorities' rights, civil rights and freedom of the people could not even tolerate people's protests and brutally attacked, killed and imprisoned their people.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests have spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
On Tuesday two men were jailed for four years after pleading guilty to inciting disorder via social networking sites - the longest sentences so far.
Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, who were arrested last week, were sentenced at Chester Crown Court.
Their jail terms are the most severe yet to be handed out by the courts following the riots in London and other British cities.
"The public disturbances are seen as an aggravating factor and that is fair enough... But there seems to be a complete lack of proportionality to some of the sentences," Andrew Neilson from the Howard League for Penal Reform said.
"These make a mockery of proportionality, which is a key principle of the justice system."
Many human rights advocates condemned the continued and severe violation of human rights by the British police, and urged London to stop massacre of the youth during unrests in the British capital and other cities.
"The current situation in Britain fully demonstrates the violation of human rights and nullifies all the claims Britain and the European and American countries have made (on advocating human rights)," Head of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi told reporters on Sunday.
He added that Britons and Europeans who have always claimed to be a supporter of the minorities' rights, civil rights and freedom of the people could not even tolerate people's protests and brutally attacked, killed and imprisoned their people.
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests have spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
