Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

Lowering UK’s income requirement for family visas ‘would increase net migration’
10 June 25
The migration advisory committee recommends that the government not raise the minimum income threshold for family visas to £38,700, as this would conflict with human rights laws.
Source: Guardian
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Rights group files legal challenge to remove Hamas from UK terror list
10 June 25
Cage International instructs lawyers to appeal the 2021 decision to proscribe Hamas as a whole (rather than its military wing), providing 26 case studies to back its claim that British Muslims are disproportionately targeted in an unjust, politically charged manner as a consequence.
Source: Middle East Eye
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Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trial
10 June 25
A hearing at the investigatory powers tribunal examines claims brought by two Guantanamo Bay prisoners that MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their mistreatment and looks at the extent of the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s kidnapping and detention of terror suspects in ‘black sites’.
Source: Guardian
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Italy’s Referendums collapse as turnout falls well below threshold
10 June 25
Despite 65% of people voting in an Italian referendum to reduce the residency requirement for non-EU citizens applying for citizenship, the referendum and four others (on labour laws) are declared null due to low voter turnout, leading to accusations that Forza Italia, who told voters to ‘head to the beach’ instead of the ballot box, deliberately encouraged abstention.
Source: Euroactiv
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Fire breaks out at Larne leisure centre as Antrim unrest enters third night
10 June 25
Police use water cannon and plastic baton rounds in an attempt to disperse crowds in Ballymena, County Antrim. Smaller anti-immigrant protests take place in Lisburn, Coleraine, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Belfast, with unrest spreading to parts of Belfast and Carrickfergus.
Source: Guardian
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‘My children are frightened to go outside’ – Filipino mechanic’s home targeted after Ballymena riots
10 June 25
The media report that the home of a Filipino family was petrol bombed on the first night of the racist riots in County Antrim, leading to substantial damage to the property and the destruction of a nearby car.
Source: Irish News
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Tackling ethnic disparities in teacher workforce could ‘significantly contribute’ to 6,500 teacher pledge
9 June 25
A National Federation of Educational Research (NFER) report into ‘ethnic disparities in initial teacher training (ITT) rejection rates’ finds that there ‘are significant ethnic disparities in postgraduate ITT rejection rates among UK-domiciled applicants that are not explained by differences in applicant and application characteristics’.
Source: TES
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The hidden underbelly of Wales where exploitation is rife
9 June 25
The Wales and west of England immigration enforcement team arrest and detain workers in raids including at a Tenby construction site, Treforest’s Choices Express takeaway, and Premier Stores in Pontypridd. Between July 2024 and May 2025, the team arrested 1,057 migrants, an increase of 114% on the previous year, with a 96 % increase in raids to 1,477.
Source: North Wales Live
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‘No Access to Justice 2’: Mapping the UK’s continuing immigration and asylum legal advice crisis
9 June 25
Justice Together publishes No access to justice 2, on the continuing crisis of legally aided provision of advice for migrants and refugees.
Source: Justice Together
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Drew Harris says two new water cannons to be used in ‘extreme scenarios’
9 June 25
In Ireland, the Garda Commissioner reveals that two new water cannon have been purchased for use in ‘extreme scenarios’ and in preparation for any public order threats during Ireland’s EU Presidency next year, also making references to the Dublin and Coolock riots.
Source: Irish Independent
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Retired Hungarian archbishop says Mass at far-right event
9 June 25
81-year-old retired Hungarian archbishop Gyula Márfi celebrates mass at an event of far-right party Mi Hazánk Mozgalom, known for antisemitic and anti-Roma rhetoric. The gathering marks the anniversary of Hungary’s post-WWI territorial losses, framed in nationalist rhetoric as a ‘Hungarian Golgotha’. Neither the Vatican nor Hungary’s bishops’ conference comment on Márfi’s participation
Source: The Tablet
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UK teenager who killed herself was ‘highly affected’ by terrorism arrest, inquest finds
9 June 25
A UK coroner finds that 16-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who died by suicide in 2022, was ‘highly affected’ by her terrorism arrest after being groomed online by American far-right extremists, though failures in her case were deemed ‘not systemic’. Despite the trauma of her arrest and prolonged investigation, the coroner ruled her death a ‘self-inflicted act’ without confirmed intent.
Source: Guardian
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France’s Le Pen hosts Europe allies in show of far-right unity
9 June 25
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen hosts European allies, including Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Italy’s Matteo Salvini, in Mormant-sur-Vernisson. The meeting represents a show of force for the far Right in the wake of Donald Trump’s success in the US, with Orban declaring that ‘the winds of change are gathering’.
Source: MSN
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Michelle O’Neill accuses DUP minister of inflaming racial tensions on social media
9 June 25
After two 14-year boys, accompanied by a Romanian translator, appear in court on rape charges, a vigil for a teenage girl allegedly assaulted in the predominantly Protestant town of Ballymena, County Antrim, erupts into a racist riot after a section of the crowd breaks away and attacks foreign-owned businesses. The windows of several houses are attacked. The chair of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland says police prevented a pogrom.
Source: Guardian
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Fahad Ansari twitter thread
8 June 25
Following a complaint from Conservative shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick, the Solicitors Regulation Authority opens an investigation into Riverway Law and solicitor Fahad Ansari for its legal challenge against the proscription of Hamas. (X
Source: Fahad Ansari)
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