Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, September 21, 2013 16:19 - 6 Comments

Analysis">The Long Walk: Talha Ahsan and the Politics of Racialisation Analysis

Today, Talha Ahsan, a British poet with Asperger's, marks his 34th Birthday in solitary confinement at a US Supermax prison, after 7 years of detention without trial. The contrast between the handling of Ahsan's extradition request and Gary McKinnon's highlights an ongoing process of racialisation in the name of the War on Terror that legitimises police violence and contributes to the immunity of political authorities.