Firth, Rhiannon;
(2023)
Riwzaan Sabir. The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State. London: Pluto Press, 2022. 256 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780745338484. eBook ISBN: 9781786807182.
[Review].
Utopian Studies
, 34
(1)
pp. 132-137.
10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0132.
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Abstract
Author Rizwaan Sabir, as a then-MA student at Nottingham University, became known as one-half of the “Nottingham Two” following his arrest along with Hicham Yezza in May 2008. They were detained for six days without charge on suspicion of terrorism for the possession of a document titled the Al Qaeda Training Manual, which was freely available on the internet and from bookstores. Sabir had downloaded it from a US government website for use as primary source material in his proposed PhD research on armed Muslim groups. But Sabir’s arrest, detention, interrogation, and release without charge takes up only about one-fifth of the pages; the remainder covers subsequent events revealing the extent of the surveillance to which he was subject, and his increasing awareness of information held about him not only by the police but by a dizzying array of interconnected authorities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Riwzaan Sabir. The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam and the Security State. London: Pluto Press, 2022. 256 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780745338484. eBook ISBN: 9781786807182. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0132 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.1.0132 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200852 |
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