"The UK's counterterrorism strategy is stifling children's freedom in school classrooms, infringing young people's right to privacy and causing Muslim pupils to self-censor out of fear of being reported to authorities, according to a new
“The UK’s counterterrorism strategy is stifling children’s freedom in school classrooms, infringing young people’s right to privacy and causing Muslim pupils to self-censor out of fear of being reported to authorities, according to a new human rights report.
Rights Watch UK called on Wednesday for the programme known as Prevent, which aims to stop people “becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism”, to be abolished. Prevent is “leaving a generation of young Britons fearful of exercising their rights to freedom of expression and belief,” said Yasmine Ahmed, the NGO’s director.”
See the full article: Prevent: UK anti-terror plan ‘harms children’s rights’ – Prevent policy limits freedom of expression in the classroom and leads to Muslims self censoring, rights group says (Al Jazeera, link)
And see the report: Preventing education? Human Rights and UK counter-terrorism policy in schools (pdf)