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IRR News 31 January – 6 February 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, Six years after Habib Ullah died in police custody in High Wycombe, the IPCC has referred the case to the CPS to decide whether to bring criminal charges against five police officers and a Police Federation solicitor. We show how the treatment of his death demonstrates that the system works at

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Comment

Immigration Bill passes through Commons

The progress of another punitive Bill which strips away legal protection from migrants and will increase homelessness, ill health and destitution, seems for now to have tri-partisan support.  The Immigration Bill finished its passage through the House of Commons on 30 January. The third reading ought to have been a last chance for MPs to

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Comment

Unabashed anti-migrant, anti-welfare election strategy

The Tories plan a systematic stream of populist measures on migration and welfare benefits in the run up to the election, and there appears to be no opposition. According to the Daily Mail, last month, the Conservative Party’s election strategist Lynton Crosby suggested the party begin producing ‘a new policy to curb immigrants and benefits’

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Comment

Snail’s pace in deaths in custody investigations

As the file on the death of Habib Ullah in police custody in 2008 finally reaches the CPS, the intolerable delays in investigating deaths in custody are once more in the spotlight. This week, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) referred the case of Habib Ullah to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The IPCC’s initial

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IRR News 24-30 January 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, Eddie Bruce-Jones describes the media vilification of Emrah Kara, a man suffering from mental health problems who was shot in December 2013 by a German special police unit, and explains how this has parallels with the deaths of those from vulnerable groups at the hands of the police in

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Review

Re-evaluating Enoch Powell

A new book on Enoch Powell reappraises without rehabilitating. In December 2012, Vince Cable compared his own government’s rhetoric on immigration to Powell’s 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. In January of this year, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said of the same speech ‘the basic principle is right’. On both and many other occasions, columnists rushed

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Review

The criminalisation of Gypsies and Travellers

There is much to commend in No Place to Call Home, a potted history of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK and Ireland, but its reliance on police sources is worrying. There is much to praise in Katharine Quarmby’s No Place to Call Home. She capably describes the structured state and institutional racism that Gypsies

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IRR News 17-23 January 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, the IRR publishes Investigated or ignored? An analysis of race-related deaths since the Macpherson report, highlighting serious deficiencies in the criminal justice system’s response to racist murders, or as a result of attacks with a known or suspected racial element. We also publish an interview by IRR director Liz

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Press Release

Investigated or ignored?

Today, the Institute of Race Relations publishes a report that shows serious deficiencies in the criminal justice system’s response to race-related killings. Since the publication of the Macpherson report in 1999, into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, at least ninety-three people have lost their lives as a result of racially motivated attacks (or attacks

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