A pilot project to administer police cautions to undocumented and falsely documented passengers could endanger asylum rights. In December, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced a new six-month pilot cautioning scheme involving passengers at Heathrow, Stansted and East Midlands airports who commit one of a number of specified fraud and document offences to get in
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
The final straw
Why is the former home secretary embroiling himself in a racialised crime issue? Jack Straw is at it again – saying the unsayable. He seems to think his working-class roots and pragmatic reputation gives him the right to say the racially unsayable or, rather, to racialise the sayable. Straw has joined the fray about gangs
Prisons for rent
Below we reproduce an article by Shiar Youssef of Corporate Watch that examines recent developments in the world of privatised prisons and policing. As the coalition government announced its plans to ‘reform’ the prison and rehabilitation services, private companies were greasing their palms for fat contracts in the new market. Meanwhile, private security giant G4S
Sudden about turn in Habib Ullah case
Last week the inquest into the death of Habib Ullah was suddenly halted as the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) made an application to the coroner to stop proceedings so it could reopen its investigation into the five police officers involved. Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah, (39) died on 3 July 2008 after a stop and search
Justice for Jimmy Mubenga
Recent news from the campaign for justice for Jimmy Mubenga. Jimmy died on 12 October 2010 after an attempt to deport him to Angola on a BA flight. According to news reports Jimmy died after allegedly being restrained by three guards from G4S, a company contracted (at the time) by the UK Border Agency (UKBA)
Putting anti-Muslim hate crime on the agenda
A new report spells out the growing demonisation of and violence against Muslims. A report on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime in the UK from the European Muslim Research Centre confirms much of what was intimated in its first, slim report in January this year. The new report, over 200 pages in length, concludes that
Ricin – a jury man’s journey
A new book on the supposed ricin plot should be recommended reading for anti-terror police and the media as to how not to investigate or report on terrorism. Five men, all Algerians were rounded up by anti-terror police in connection with an alleged plot to produce the deadly poison ricin between September 2002 and January
Call for justice for Jimmy Mubenga
On 12 November 2010, over 150 people marched from the Angolan Embassy to the Home Office in protest at the death of Jimmy Mubenga during a deportation. Campaigners from the Angolan community first delivered a letter to the Angolan Embassy to call on the authorities to intervene. The march, led by the family and friends
Too Black? the case of the Oval 4 revisited
A gripping new autobiographical book has been published on the case of the ‘Oval 4’. The book, Black for a cause … not just because … the case of the ‘Oval 4’ and the story of Black Power in 1970s Britain, written by Winston Trew makes for compelling reading especially where the author describes the
Jay Abatan unlawfully killed
The 25 October inquest verdict of unlawful killing of Jay Abatan, killed in an unprovoked attack in January 1999, raises the possibility of new charges. Jay Abatan was attacked after a night out with his brother and a friend in Brighton. He was punched twice and fell to the ground hitting his head and died