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High court challenge to ‘constitutionally unprecedented’ UK anti-protest law
29 November 23
Liberty launches a legal challenge against regulations lowering the threshold of disruption permitting police to impose conditions on protests.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, join the ELSC Community of supporters!
29 November 23
The European Legal Support Centre says that in the last seven weeks it has registered over 390 new cases, including arrests at Palestine solidarity protests, violent assaults against Palestinians and allies, censorship, university suspension, workplace dismissals, home visits from law enforcement and threats to residency status.
Source: European Legal Support Centre
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Another Roma boy dies in police chase, marking grim pattern in Greece
27 November 23
The funeral of Christos Michalopoulos, a 17-year-old Roma boy who died from a gunshot fired by a police officer during a chase on 11 November, is held in Thebes, Greece. Christos’ death is the third death of a Roma teenager involving Greek police in less than three years.
Source: Al Jazeera
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Greece
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Armed policing review is ‘wrong move’, says Chris Kaba family lawyer
26 November 23
The lawyer for Chris Kaba’s family and JUSTICE criticise the Home Office for ‘giving police carte blanche to behave as they like’ by pushing through a review of armed policing without adequate consultation. The review was commissioned after firearms officers downed weapons when their colleague was charged with Kaba’s murder.
Source: Evening Standard
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Met police to give pro-Palestine protesters leaflets about potential offences
25 November 23
The Met circulates ‘Hate Crime Protest Leaflet’ among pro-Palestinian demonstrators warning that they should not use words that ‘are racist or incite hatred against any faith’, ‘support Hamas or any other banned organisation’, or ‘celebrate or promote acts of terrorism’. Seven related arrests are reported, including for comparing Israel’s ‘strikes’ to the Holocaust and for depicting a swastika inside a Star of David.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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More Greater Manchester Police custody abuse claims investigated
25 November 23
Following the launch of an investigation into allegations that Greater Manchester Police have mistreated women in custody and carried out unjustifiable strip searches, a further nine women and three men issue anonymous complaints.
Source: Sky News
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Anger at Met safer schools officer’s return after student’s wrongful arrest
24 November 23
The Alliance for Police Accountability criticises the Met for allowing an officer to return to his post at a school in Lambeth, London, despite having wrongfully arrested a 16-year-old Black Muslim student last year, allegedly manhandling her and leaving her traumatised.
Source: Open Democracy
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Fatal police shooting in Dagenham
23 November 23
An IOPC investigation is launched after an unidentified man, who was suffering a mental health crisis and in possession of a loaded firearm, is shot dead by police in Dagenham, east London.
Source: Metropolitan Police
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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‘It risks miscarriages of justice’: MPs oppose rap lyrics being used as evidence in UK trials
22 November 23
MPs Nadia Whittome and Kim Johnson and DJ Annie Mac are amongst those backing ‘Art Not Evidence’, a new campaign for a change in law regarding the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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‘Holding Back Progress During Crisis of Confidence for Minority Communities’: Braverman’s Meetings with Controversial Policing Pressure Group
20 November 23
Former home secretary Suella Braverman is criticised by senior police officers for meeting with the controversial pressure group Fair Cop, which has links with the Reclaim Party, criticises diversity and inclusion policies, describes supporters of Palestine as ‘terrorist sympathisers’ and claims support from anonymous officers across the country.
Source: Byline Times
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Police county lines strategy ‘cruelly targets’ black youth in UK
19 November 23
A study published by IRR finds that the Home Office’s approach to tackling county lines drug operations is based on unproven assumptions and ‘racialised tropes’ that criminalise Black boys and young men. Young Black people are six times more likely than any other ethnicity to be included in county lines safeguarding classifications.
Source: Observer
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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HM INSPECTORATE OF PRISONS on HMP Bedford
15 November 23
HM Inspector of Prisons sends an urgent notification to the justice minister following an inspection of Bedford Prison reveals rat- and cockroach-infested cells, over-use of force and unprofessional behaviour by staff, racist incidents, and very high levels of violence and self-harm among prisoners.
Source: HM Inspector of Prisons
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Senior officer in Stephen Lawrence case was ‘corrupt’, Met document claims
14 November 23
A previously unseen 2000 Met document contains conclusions that a senior police officer involved in the Stephen Lawrence inquiry was corrupt, prompting the family’s lawyer to call for an investigation into Ray Evans for alleged perjury.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Aisha Cleary: Mother responds to lack of recommendations following death of baby in Bronzefield prison
14 November 23
INQUEST and Rianna Clearly criticise the Surrey senior coroner who, after earlier finding ‘multiple systemic failures’ caused the 2019 death of baby Aisha in a cell at HMP Bronzefield when teenager Rianna was left to give birth alone, announces that he will order no prevention of future deaths report, saying he is satisfied with changes made within the prison system.
Source: Inquest
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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New stop and search scheme for England and Wales will not cut violence, thinktank suggests
13 November 23
Research published by the Runnymede Trust shows that Serious Violence Reduction Orders result in more searches of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, who experience poor mental and physical health as a result. The Home Office is accused of using ‘unreliable’ data to claim that ‘most’ of the public supported new stop and search powers that do not require grounds for suspicion.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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