Last week, campaigners from numerous organisations brought their grievances about the human rights abuses of G4S directly to their annual general meeting. A lively protest took place outside Salter’s Hall in the city. As shareholders arrived, they were met with a mock barricade and prison cell and over seventy activists shouting anti-G4S slogans. Inside the
A series of hunger strikes, following allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents, are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system. For the first time in more than a decade, hundreds of people in Dutch immigration detention centres have gone on hunger strikes in protest at their hopeless situation.
The first annual human rights conference of Justice Watch Ireland. Saturday 22 June 2013, 11-2pm Holiday Inn Hotel, 22 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HS Speakers include: Paddy Hill – Birmingham Six Gareth Peirce – Human rights solicitor Moazzam Begg – Guantanamo Bay detainee Phil Scraton – Hillsborough Independent Panel John Finucane – Human rights lawyer
Attacks in Germany linked to the NSU trial demonstrate that the far Right does not need a stimulus for violence. Following the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich and attacks on several mosques, the government-funded Tell MAMA project warned of the dangers of cumulative extremism, tit-for-tat violence between Islamists and counter-jihadists and a
Swedish neo-Nazi vigilantes formed a ‘National Guard’ to stop ‘race riots’. In the UK ‘riots’ of August 2011, the EDL formed a vigilante group in south London and ended up attacking black passers-by and the police. In Sweden, the Research Group (an independent group of engaged Swedish citizens who investigate stories that don’t get properly
A week of action and events across the UK. Saturday 8 June – Saturday 15 June 2013 Locations across London Related links StopG8 Network StopG8 Network on Facebook StopG8 Network on Twitter Calendar of events
The StopG8 week of actions and events ends with a solidarity benefit night of militant music. In support of the 10×100 Years of Jail Campaign in Italy (Marina & Alberto were jailed last year for the anti-G8 protests in Genoa 2001) and the United Families & Friends Campaign (families & friends fighting for justice for
In the blizzard of coalition measures wreaking destruction on living standards, the justice ministry’s proposals on legal aid will once again bear down hardest on poor BME, Muslim and migrant communities. From the introduction of a residence test for civil legal aid, to the withdrawal of public funding for challenges to mistreatment in prison and
An evening of talks, film and discussion with individuals and groups active against police killings and repression, immigration raids, and the detention system. Sunday 9 June 2013, 7-10:30pm Stopg8 convergence centre (location will announced on 8 June) Groups taking part include: United Friends and Families Campaign (UFFC) (friends and families of people killed in police
Representatives from Cageprisoners, Engage, CAMPACC and Stopwatch will share their stories of being stopped under the draconian Schedule 7 powers. Wednesday 5 June 2013, 7-9pm St Bride Foundation, Fleet Street, London EC4Y Schedule 7 is a stop-and-search law under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Over 70,000 people are stopped every year entering or exiting any
