more from "islam, war and the media" con

a few photos from the "journalists and the 'terror' laws" workshop, and the second plenary which was a question and answer session

the 'journalists and terror laws' workshop was chaired by jenny lennox

marc vallée, hicham yezza and louise christian spoke about the threat to journalism from new attacks on civil liberties

jason parkinson's excellent film "press freedom: collateral damage" was shown

marc vallée spoke of his injuries at the hands of the police and the constant surveillance and harassment he receives from the police 'forward intelligence' teams

hicham yezza was one of two nottingham students recently held for six days under terrorism legislation for downloading a manual from the US department of justice which is also freely available as a book on amazon. he described the 20 hours of interrogation he suffered, and his current battle to avoid a spurious deportation order

louise christian spoke of the use of current 'terror' laws and of future laws in the pipeline

after the various individual workshops, in the second main plenary "war, the crisis and the media" a panel comprising moazzam begg, nick davies and eamonn mccann answered questions fron the audience