The Anti Racism Network (ARN), an Irish based migrant-led grassroots initiative, has launched a new journal in Dublin. At the launch in Trinity College on 2 May, co-founder of the ARN Public Journal Luke Bukha Kasuanga emphasised that this is a non-academic publication aiming not just to highlight the activities of campaigning groups but also
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, the IRR’s Jon Burnett and Liz Fekete discuss the hate crime agenda in Race & Class’ first radio show and we report on racially motivated attacks and convictions over May/June 2013. And a comment piece by Frances Webber assesses how the ‘high-profile deportation of a suspected, but unconvicted, serial rapist opens
The high-profile deportation of a suspected, but unconvicted, serial rapist opens the door to the risk of serious injustice. It was a shrewd move on the part of the Metropolitan police and Home Office to use the case of Lincoln Farquharson, a man charged with rape on five separate occasions between 2006 and 2011, tried
An overview of racial violence and convictions over the last few months. In the aftermath of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in May, the harassment of Muslims continues. Several mosques and Islamic cultural centres have been targeted in attacks, some of which have been attributed to the far Right, and in the most high-profile
Contributors to the IRR’s journal, Race & Class, discuss the impact of the official ‘hate crime agenda’ on racial violence and anti-racist campaigning. On 22 May 2013, IRR researcher Jon Burnett and IRR director Liz Fekete took part in a radio discussion on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara’s ‘No Alibis’ programme. Jon Burnett discussed the
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, we have a report from the Netherlands on a series of hunger strikes by asylum seekers which are showing the fault lines in the Dutch detention system. We also have news of an alleged assault on a Kurdish man during a deportation by a guard from the private security
Last week, campaigners from numerous organisations brought their grievances about the human rights abuses of G4S directly to their annual general meeting. A lively protest took place outside Salter’s Hall in the city. As shareholders arrived, they were met with a mock barricade and prison cell and over seventy activists shouting anti-G4S slogans. Inside the
A series of hunger strikes, following allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents, are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system. For the first time in more than a decade, hundreds of people in Dutch immigration detention centres have gone on hunger strikes in protest at their hopeless situation.
IRR News reports on a recent deportation, which resulted in a Kurdish man allegedly having his nose broken by a guard from the private company Tascor (which is contracted to carry out deportations). Omer Kader was being deported to Northern Iraq on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight on Friday 7 June 2013. He has reported
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