Go to law: Claire Bowman tells how CEQ met with police

‘Several hands shot forward.’

by Claire Bowman 27th June 2025

In the wake of the raid on Westminster Meeting House, Friends from Central England Quakers met with Haroon Chughtai, a superintendent at the West Midlands Police, and Khadija Sulaiman, their head of chaplaincy. The meeting was suggested and arranged by Kamran Shezad, the director of the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Kamran is a well-known local activist, who has been advising West Midlands police on behalf of Muslims to good effect for some time. He knows Quakers well and wanted them to have an equally-good working relationship with the police.