White suspects had a charge rate of 70% compared to 81% for ‘mixed heritage’ suspects, according to ‘alarming’ new statistics revealed in a parliamentary debate in which the government repeatedly ...
The police watchdog has removed a controversial, pseudoscientific term from response forms after criticism that it increased police brutality. So-called ‘excited delirium’ has previously been listed a ...
The segregation unit at Bedford prison is to close down following a threat of legal action over concerns about squalid conditions. The Howard League for Penal Reform last month sent a letter ...
REVIEW: The new Channel Four documentary series Defiance: Fighting the Far Right needed to be aired as a lot of youngsters are unaware of the struggles that British Asians and Blacks faced and how ...
Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...
The lawyer who represented the Birmingham Six told a packed meeting in parliament that history had repeated itself with the wrongful conviction of four young Muslim men in 2017. Gareth Peirce was ...
On Tuesday a video message by Andrew Malkinson was played to a packed meeting of MPs, campaigners and journalists at the ...
I can’t remember when I first met Edward Conteh. It may have been at one of his 10 deportation hearings myself and other JENGbA campaigners attended at the Immigration and Asylum Court at Taylor House ...