A racialised justice system providing second-class protection to Muslims can be challenged. So rare is it to encounter a human, non-racist attitude to Muslims accused of support for terrorism, that a judge’s reasonable and evidence-based approach to the sentencing of Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan took everyone by surprise. On 17 July, Connecticut chief judge
Below we reproduce an excerpt from an article in the current issue of Race & Class on the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market. As a principle, migrant children should not be subjected to detention. (Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights)[1] At Barnado’s, we believe in
A 30-year-old Bangladeshi woman has died in police custody in Walsall, West Midlands, shortly after being arrested. Sharmilla Ullah was detained on suspicion of shoplifting and taken to Bloxwich police station on 9 July. She became unwell whilst in custody and was taken to Walsall Manor hospital where she received treatment, before she was released
Dear IRR News subscriber, Earlier this week, a landmark case at the High Court found that the government’s attempts to introduce a residence test for legal aid is discriminatory and unlawful. High Court judges have also indicated that a decision on whether the inquest verdict into the death of Mark Duggan will be quashed will
Dear IRR News subscriber, The Macpherson inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Stephen Lawrence’s death was one of the most important inquiries of the 1990s, laying bare the extent of institutional racism within the Metropolitan police. But now the Ellison review into police corruption and undercover policing has revealed that the Special Demonstration Squad was spying
Below we publish an edited version of the speech given by Suresh Grover, Director of The Monitoring Group and former coordinator of the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign, at the parliamentary meeting ‘Police Corruption and racism: an endless legacy‘ on 23 June 2014. Why do the police treat anti-racist and black justice campaigns as though they are subversive
The latest issue of Race & Class examines the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market. In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre, CEDARS, which
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week IRR News focuses on the media. We draw your attention to the latest broadcast of Race & Class radio; Avery Gordon is joined by guests Bill Rolston, discussing the mural paintings of Gaza, and Sabrina Alimahomed on Homeland Security and private profit in the US. We also have news
A powerful drama to be aired on Sunday lays bare the injustice of joint enterprise. Common, by Jimmy McGovern, tells the story of a senseless murder in the north-west and the chain of events which follows, leading to the imprisonment of the innocent. While the drama focuses on how the doctrine of joint enterprise in
The latest broadcast of Race & Class Radio is now available to download. In the current broadcast of Race & Class Radio, Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson are joined by guests Bill Rolston, discussing the mural paintings of Gaza, and Sabrina Alimahomed on the revolving door between public order and private profit in the US. Bill
