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Wed, 08/17/2011 - 13:36
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Analyst: More British Classes, Unions Likely to Join Protests Soon
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior British analyst condemned the government and the police for cracking down on protestors who are merely demanding more attention to their needs, and said other social classes and unions are likely to join the protests soon.
"If David Cameron's cabinet suppresses the protests and does not pay attention to the demands of protestors, I believe that other classes will also join the protesting youth," Ali Ramezan al-Oussi, a professor at the London University, told FNA on Wednesday.
He condemned the massacre and apprehension of British protestors by the police forces during the unrests, and said the protesting youth were not responsible for the looting and other violent behaviors seen during the riots across the country, alluding that the small group of looters who plundered private and public properties might have even been hired or provoked by the British government.
Human rights groups have expressed deep 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 charges of inciting disorder via social networking sites were raised against them - 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 unrests 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."
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.
"If David Cameron's cabinet suppresses the protests and does not pay attention to the demands of protestors, I believe that other classes will also join the protesting youth," Ali Ramezan al-Oussi, a professor at the London University, told FNA on Wednesday.
He condemned the massacre and apprehension of British protestors by the police forces during the unrests, and said the protesting youth were not responsible for the looting and other violent behaviors seen during the riots across the country, alluding that the small group of looters who plundered private and public properties might have even been hired or provoked by the British government.
Human rights groups have expressed deep 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 charges of inciting disorder via social networking sites were raised against them - 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 unrests 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."
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.
