Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

Amsterdam police break up banned pro-Palestinian rally
10 November 24
In the Netherlands, Amsterdam riot police break up a Palestine solidarity rally and arrest 50 people after a three-day emergency ban is placed on such protests following clashes between Israeli football fans and local residents.
Source: Deutsche Welle
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Netherlands
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Children taken away from parents due to misreporting of drug tests, say experts
9 November 24
Experts warn the family division of the high court that children are at risk of removal from parents through faulty and racially biassed interpretation of ‘hair strand’ drug testing, meaning that people of African, Caribbean or Asian descent are more likely to lose custody of their children.
Source: Observer
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Woman who brought 11-year-old to riot at asylum seeker hotel fumes as she is jailed
8 November 24
According to the Justice Ministry, by 3 October 388 people had been sent to prison for the summer violence against migrants and Muslims.
Source: Independent
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Teenager who smashed window during Middlesbrough riots freed on appeal
7 November 24
The appeal court rejects the appeal of Aminadab Temesgen, sentenced to 14 months in jail for throwing a can and water bottle at police and a far-right group that had racially abused him in Plymouth during the summer far-right riots. It rules that an error in sentencing means he should serve his sentence in a young offender institution rather than a prison.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Italy: Interior Ministry accused in case of police torture and defenestration of Romani victim
6 November 24
At a preliminary hearing of a case about a disabled Roma man who fell from a bedroom window during an unauthorised police raid in Primaville, Italy, in 2022, the interior ministry is named as a responsible party and three police officers are accused of false testimony and torture.
Source: European Roma Rights Centre
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Italy
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Middlesbrough rioter Jake Wray jailed for asking if drivers were ‘white’
6 November 24
Teesside Crown Court gives 23-year-old Jake Wray, filmed stopping motorists to check they were white during the far-right riots, a 38-month jail sentence for violent disorder, including arson and racist chanting.
Source: BBC
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Belfast: Anti-immigration protester jailed over illegal march
4 November 24
An anti-immigration protester holding an Irish tricolour who led a march in Belfast on 3 August which was followed by serious rioting is sentenced to 3 months for taking part in an unnotified procession.
Source: BBC
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Northern Ireland
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French pupil’s father to go on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading
4 November 24
The trial begins of eight adults in connection with the murder of Samuel Paty, a French school teacher who was killed in October 2020 after accusations of Islamophobia were circulated online.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: France
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Wayne Bayley: Jury finds neglect contributed to the death of Black man from sickle cell disease complications and restraint at HMP Pentonville
1 November 24
At the inquest into the death of Wayne Bayley, a Black sickle cell patient who died, ten hours after being restrained by prison officers, ‘naked and alone’ in Pentonville prison in 2022, the jury returns a narrative verdict highly critical of prison and healthcare, concluding that ‘gross failures on basic medical attention’ contributed to his death
Source: Inquest
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Chris Kaba’s family says policing reforms like ‘punishment’ for his case
26 October 24
At the United Friends and Families Campaign’s annual remembrance procession, Chris Kaba’s cousin tells the press that the home secretary’s new measures on anonymity for firearms officers seem to be a ‘punishment’ for her cousin’s case having made it ‘as far as trial’.
Source: Independent
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Thousands Protest in Lisbon Against Police Violence
26 October 24
In Lisbon, Portugal, after five nights of unrest following Odair Moniz’s fatal shooting by police, thousands march and rally against police violence, while the far-right CHEGA party organises a counter-protest in solidarity with police.
Source: US News
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Portugal
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CHEGA in hot water following statements related to death of Odair Moniz
25 October 24
In Portugal, a police officer who four days earlier, shot dead 43-year-old Odair Moniz, originally from Cape Verde, is reportedly indicted for homicide. Police say they are trawling social media accounts with a view to holding the organisers of protests against Moniz’s death criminally responsible for the unrest that followed the death.
Source: Portugal Resident
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Portugal
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Black youth worker Tasered by City of London police wins appeal for damages
25 October 24
Edwin Afriyie, a Black youth worker Tasered by City of London police during a road stop in 2018, wins his civil claims appeal for damages on the grounds that ‘the use of a Taser was not objectively reasonable in the circumstances’.
Source: Guardian
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Trial against 2020 Lesvos vigilantes started
24 October 24
In Greece, the trial of four people who allegedly attacked a journalist while filming an organised racist mob attacking a refugee boat in Lesvos, opens after having been postponed three times.
Source: X [Michael Trammer]
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Greece
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Accountability or Anonymity – A Critical Analysis of Police Reform in England and Wales
23 October 24
The home secretary announces reforms to police misconduct hearings in England and Wales and ‘a presumption of anonymity for firearms officers subject to criminal trial following a police shooting… up to the point of conviction’. Prior to new legislation, a policy package on police accountability is published.
Source: Mountford Chambers
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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