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• Victory for privacy rights
  

  Article by Liberty Policy Director Gareth Crossman on the S and Marper v UK DNA retention ruling, 4 December 2008
  

• The Sunday Times - 'This arrest of an MP is a threat to us all'

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti talks about the implications arrest of Damian Green MP in The Sunday Times, 30 November, 2008
• The Guardian - Why I'm defending the shock-jock who branded me 'dangerous'

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti explains why she has taken up the cause of the Sun columnist Jon Gaunt, 27 November 2008
• New Statesman - These values we hold dear

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti explains how an exhibition on Britain's fight for civil liberties is a humbling reminder of how precious those rights are, 16 October 2008
• John Harris Memorial Police Foundation Lecture

  Read Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti's Police Foundation lecture to senior police officers, politicians and judges, on the way that the role of the police has been undermined by political pressure from successive governments. Wednesday 2 June, 2008 (PDF)
• Mail on Sunday - Why David Davis was right to make a stand

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes about David Davis resignation as Shadow Home Secretary in the Mail on Sunday, 15 June 2008
• Comment is Free - The crazy politics of 42 days

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes that detention without charge tramples rights won over centuries, and urges Labour MPs to resist prolonging it just for party posturing, June 2008
• The Sunday Times - Brown's U-Turn on Terror

  Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti writes in The Sunday Times about the political context of the Counter Terrorism Bill, April 2008
• Terrorism detention without charge: How many days is enough?

  Former Policy Director Gareth Crossman questions the Government's claims that a longer detention period is necessary for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, April 2008 (PDF)
• Comment is Free - Who's Listening?

  Article about privacy rights and new legislation by Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti, 21 February 2008
• Comment is Free - Conviction politics

  Liberty's Director Shami Chakrabarti discusses secret surveillance and the use of intercept evidence in court, 07 February 2008
• Comment is Free - So much for habeas corpus

  Shami Chakrabarti condemns new powers to detain suspects for six weeks, arguing that the proposals trash centuries of British justice and shame us in the eyes of the world, 24 January 2008
• The Guardian - Liberty begins at home

  Liberty's Director Shami Chakrabarti writes for the Guardian politics section on the erosion of British moral authority by our failure to practise what we preach to the world on human rights, 08 January 2008