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RICU and Prevent: CAGE’s ground-breaking report ‘We are completely independent’

  • By Copy Editor
  • May 25, 2016
RICU counter-extremism UK Home Office psychological control Muslims

This ground-breaking report into the role of RICU and its utility under Prevent was released by CAGE in May 2016.

It revealed that the Home Office, together with a secretive government department called RICU (the Research, Information and Communications Unit) have been cultivating a network of ‘grass roots’ Muslim voices to promote state-scripted narratives.

Co-authored by Asim Qureshi and Ben Hayes, the report’s findings were broken by a reporting team headed up by Ian Cobain at The Guardian, and picked up by The Independent.

It revealed how the UK government’s use of the Official Secrets Act to protect a PR company, Breakthrough Media, and conceal its role in producing state-sponsored propaganda, was reminiscent of cold-war era propaganda strategies under the guise of “preventing extremism”.

It also highlighted that this is taking place with no public debate or oversight.

Download the report HERE.

Related Resources

  • It was reported in April 2022, that RICU had been awarded a million-pound contract by the Home Office.
  • Browse our full Resource archives for more on Prevent and psychological control.
  • Embedding Infrastructures of Surveillance in Muslim Communities (Report, 2018)
  • Prevent and Counter-Extremism as Counter-Insurgency (Journal Article, 2017)
 
  • CAGE, counter extremism narratives, Prevent strategy, Propaganda, RICU

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