Eda Seyhan

Eda Seyhan is a human rights lawyer and activist. From 2015 to 2019, She worked as a campaigner on counter-terrorism at Amnesty International, which involved helping people unfairly accused of terrorism across Europe. She has written for Al Jazeera, African Arguments, EuroNews and Critical Legal Thinking. She tweets at @eda_seyhan.
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Ideas | ‘Counter-Terrorism’ is a dangerous myth, it is high time we abolished it

At a moment when demands for police and prison abolition have travelled from the radical fringes into mainstream prominence, the radical social transformation that we seek requires nothing less than the abolition of the category of ‘terrorism’ altogether and the dismantling of the global counter-terrorism infrastructure, writes Eda Seyhan.
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