The victim of a vicious Islamophobic attack awaits the verdict of a Versailles appeal court after his alleged attackers, one a known violent racist, were acquitted. Nouredine Rachedi and his supporters in the campaign group Justice for Nouredine were in court on 12 June and now anxiously await the verdict. The case concerns the acquittal
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The truth about far-right violence
A shocking new report documents patterns of far-right violence across Europe. As concerns mount about the violence of elected far-right politicians in Greece, and Sol Campbell warns black and Asian football fans against travelling to Poland and the Ukraine for Euro 2012, the Institute of Race Relations reveals that the problem of far-right violence is
Sarkozy’s racist legacy
Graham Murray reports on the ‘normalisation’ of extreme Right politics in France. The defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy on 6 May 2012 should be celebrated as a victory against Islamophobia and racism. No other French presidential candidate from ‘mainstream’ politics tapped into the ideology of the far Right to the extent that Sarkozy did. In an
IRR News 1-8 June 2012
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week Nicky Road reports on a new project offering mobility for asylum seekers in London and Graham Murray reports on Sarkozy’s racist legacy. And in other news from across the UK, one of the men charged with the murder of Simon Tan in Carrickfergus in 1996 has been refused bail after an
Baisikel calls for volunteers and bikes
A new project opens up opportunities for asylum seekers in London to get about. A couple living in London concerned about the worsening conditions that asylum seekers find themselves, increasingly now dispersed outside the M25 but required to travel into central London for appointments, decided that there was a practical way that they could help.
IRR News 25-31 May 2012
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week Jon Burnett asks if ‘police racism is enshrined in practice?‘ and Joanna Tegnerowicz reports from Poland on how the public prosecutor has dropped its investigation in the police shooting of Maxwell Itoya a Nigerian street vendor. In news from across the UK, Sol Campbell has warned football fans from attending
No justice for Maxwell Itoya
In Poland, the public prosecutor has closed the investigation into the police shooting of a Nigerian street vendor. Two years ago, on 23 May 2010, a young Nigerian man, Maxwell Itoya, was shot dead by a policeman in an open-air market in Warsaw where he sold shoes. The unexplained tragedy attracted a lot of public
Boats 4 People
An imaginative project highlights migrant deaths at sea and seeks to restore traditions of humanity and rescue endangered by migration control. The callous and deliberate failure by the Italian and Spanish governments and NATO to rescue seventy-two migrants in their drifting dinghy in a Mediterranean ‘search and rescue area’, leading to the deaths of sixty-three
Police racism – enshrined in practice
Police indifference to BME community concerns perpetuates racial violence, according to ongoing research by the Institute of Race Relations. The police have been forced to acknowledge the racism embedded within their own ranks recently, primarily as a result of the quick-witted teenager Mauro Demetrio, who surreptitiously recorded a PC telling him that ‘the problem with
IRR News 18-24 May 2012
Dear IRR News subscriber, Monday’s meeting, Resistance: the best Olympics spirit, at which John Carlos spoke was inspiring, video of speakers at the meeting can be viewed here. And those inspired by John Carlos, should also read a lovely tribute to a life-long campaigner for equality, Gerry German, written by Hugh Muir in the Guardian.