Civil liberties lawyer warns of ‘dark age of injustice’
Gareth Peirce, who represented Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzem Begg, claimed there was an unprecedented amount of "hatred and venom" being directed against the Muslim community.
Speaking at the Muslim News Fourth Annual Awards for Excellence, Ms Peirce collected the Annemarie Schimmel Award for championing a Muslim cause. In her acceptance speech, she said: "I have never known such venom and such hatred and such constant unchecked fascistic expression of daily appalling, often fabricated, always imagined, always exaggerated verbiage as there has been against the Muslim community.
