On Sunday 17 June, as families celebrate Father’s Day, vigils will be held at police stations across the UK to remember loved ones who have died in custody. Families and friends will gather for peaceful vigils in Birmingham, High Wycombe, London, Manchester and Slough. The national day of action, which is being supported by the
The home secretary’s latest immigration proposals will restrict migrants’ family life in the UK, make it contingent on income, language and integration tests and on continuing good behaviour. On 10 June, the coalition’s latest attempt to redeem its rash election promise to reduce net migration to below 100,000 was unveiled on TV’s Andrew Marr show.
The wholesale deportation of Sri Lankan Tamils in defiance of human rights concerns, and the feting of a leader accused of war crimes, demonstrate that asylum policy has as little to do with humanitarian considerations as it did a generation ago. For the British government, entertaining Sri Lanka’s president Rajapaksa at the diamond jubilee celebrations
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
