Over the past five years, the Home Office and a secretive government department called RICU, the Research, Information and Communications Unit, has been cultivating a network of ‘grass roots’ Muslim voices to promote ‘counter-narratives’ to combat the appeal of ‘extremist narratives’ among Britain’s young people. All of this is taking place with no public debate or oversight. Working with top PR agencies and new media companies to target young people who fit the profile of ‘vulnerable young Muslim’, RICU’s interventions represent the first concerted foray into cyberspace by the British state with the aim of covertly engineering the thoughts of its citizens. In practice this means the chosen ‘grass roots’ organisations and ‘counter-narratives’ receive financial and technical support from the government for the production of their multimedia campaigns (videos, websites, podcasts, blogs etc.). These state-sponsored ‘counter narratives’ have in turn been promoted to specific groups of internet users, chosen on the basis of their demographics, the websites they visit, the social media accounts they ‘follow’, and the search terms they use. Note: The use of information from Persephone Rizvi’s LinkedIn profile in this report in no way indicates her knowledge of the connections between UmmahSonic, Breakthrough Media and the Home Office. Many of those working for such companies or projects like UmmahSonic are unaware of funding streams or links to the counter-terrorism establishment, which is why it is more important than ever to have transparency and accountability for any project that presents itself as being connected to the grassroots

The British government on the 1 July 2015 enforced a new statutory Prevent duty to stop individuals from being drawn into terrorism and extremism. CAGE’s experience in monitoring the operational implementation on PREVENT reveals that schools are referring children to PREVENT officers, or permitting children to be questioned on ideology, politics and religion without consent from parents or guardians. The schools involved in these cases have not sent letters home or called for consent from parents. It should be noted that the cases illustrated represent only a sample of the cases that have come to CAGE. In almost every single case involving children, consent is not obtained from parents or guardians. The following case based evidence demonstrates the operational implementation of PREVENT in educational institutions. The report is concluded by important recommendations for schools and PREVENT practitioners to consider.

<div class="field_c_p_img"> CAGE Directors commissioned an external review of its handling of the Mohammed Emwazi case and the subsequent <strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/cage-campaigners-put-under-spotlight-mohammed-emwazi-jihadi-john%20">media coverage</a></strong>. Communica were appointed to undertake this review. They were provided with all the material including confidential internal paperwork, interviews with key people, including an independent focus group and analysis of media reporting. The report concludes that: "the Emwazi affair was unique. It presented CAGE with an extremely pressurised and hostile situation, while also opening opportunities to advance its objectives." &nbsp; "Under these unique circumstances CAGE handled most things very well with the limited resources at their disposal. The Emwazi affair has been a steep learning curve for this young civil society organisation. Mistakes were made but these were due to inexperience and poor planning and communication. This allowed a hostile media easily to label and misrepresent CAGE in the way they did." &nbsp; "With a greater development of their work and values, combined with better management and training, CAGE will become even better at dealing with the media, communicating their messages and achieving their objectives." &nbsp; [fusion_button link="http://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/External-Review-Mohammed-Emwazi-affair.pdf" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download the report[/fusion_button] </div>

<em>This is our brochure which highlights some of our work over the past year but also provides a history of our work since we began. You can download the brochure and below are some screenshots for what you can find inside:</em> [fusion_button link="http://www.cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CAGE-brochure.pdf" title="" target="_self" link_attributes="" alignment="center" modal="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" color="default" button_gradient_top_color="" button_gradient_bottom_color="" button_gradient_top_color_hover="" button_gradient_bottom_color_hover="" accent_color="" accent_hover_color="" type="" bevel_color="" border_width="" size="large" stretch="no" shape="" icon="" icon_position="left" icon_divider="no" animation_type="" animation_direction="left" animation_speed="0.3" animation_offset=""]Download our brochure[/fusion_button] <h3>Message of Thanks</h3> The last couple of years have seen great challenges for CAGE while at the same time many triumphs. Since March 2014 we still remain without a bank account and under constant pressure and scrutiny from politicians and various government agencies. Despite these difficulties, <em>alhamdulillah </em>we have been able to work on major cases of significance in the War on Terror and continue to advocate for due process and the rule of law. None of this would have been possible without the will of Allah swt firstly, and then the commitment generosity of you. As you already know, CAGE does not and has never taken funding from any state sources. Being politically and financially independent is crucial for the integrity of our mission. Support from the various communities that we work with and represent has only increased. This is what gives us our strong mandate and enables us to continue our work. We are very grateful for this continued solidarity and support. Although much of the recent perception around CAGE has been dominated by our work seeking accountability for security services actions in the Emwazi case, we hope that you will be able to gain an insight into the breadth of the other work we are carrying out in pursuit of our mission. We also hope that this brochure enables you to see the historical contributions that CAGE has made in documenting abuses and calling for the rule of law to be applied in the War on Terror. The political, security and media establishments along with their allies have resorted to name calling and labelling to divert attention from the evidence that CAGE has presented the evidence that CAGE has presented, with the purpose of seeking basic answers. They have also attacked CAGE in order to send a chilling effect across oppressed communities - but fear can control us only if we allow it to. We need to have courage and stand together to resist oppressive policies and legislation. Together, we have vital work to do- with the grace of Allah swt let us continue to advocate for due process, the rule of law and an end to the injustices of the War on Terror. Fi amanillah <em>Dr Adnan Siddiqui</em> <div><strong>CAGE Director</strong></div> <div></div> <div> <img class="aligncenter" style="width: 600px; height: 382px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/dr_adnan.png" alt="" /></div> <h3>Who we are</h3> <div style="text-align: center;"><b><img style="width: 600px; height: 282px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/vision.png" alt="" /></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <h3>Anti-Terrorism arrests in the UK</h3> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 385px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/effect_of_ani_terr.png" alt="" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <h3>Global Cases</h3> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 386px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/world_map.png" alt="" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <h3>CAGE in the media</h3> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 305px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/this_year_cage_has.png" alt="" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 600px; height: 375px;" src="https://cage.ngo/wp-content/uploads/featured_in.png" alt="" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div>

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