The Guardian reports that David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has called for “further reform” to the Schedule 7 stop and search powers and ports and airports “to include the introduction of a suspicion threshold …and the improvement of safeguards in...
BBC News reports on an anti-Muslim hate crime in Wigan where a man ran into Pemberton Service Station and threw a large chunk of bacon at an Asian attendant. The man, caught on CCTV, is seen with his head wrapped in a scarf taking aim at the attendant while holding a piece of meat. Greater...
Local newspaper, The Northern Echo, reports on the anti-burqa protest by the English Defence League and North East Infidels in Hartlepool last weekend. Around 150 members of the EDL and NEI marched from The Clarendon Pub to the War Memorial in Church Square. A counter protest by anti-fascist group...
BBC News reports on the Home Secretary’s move to deprive terror suspect Hilal Al-Jedda of UK citizenship despite rendering him stateless as a result. Hilal Al-Jedda lost his Iraqi nationality when given UK asylum in 2000 and became a British subject. He was arrested in Iraq in 2004 by the US and...
ENGAGE is working with the newly elected Police and Crime Commissioners to get police forces across England and Wales to record hate crime against Muslims with a specific crime flag. Currently the Metropolitan Police Service and Greater Manchester Police record Islamophobia with a specific crime...
On the first anniversary of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s report, following the Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, The Guardian on Friday featured a full page advertisement by Hacked Off with a 100 public personalities who have signed the Leveson Royal...
The Ministry of Justice has released annual statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2012 which provides information about how members of all ethnic groups, including those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups, were represented in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in...
A 21-year-old man who scrawled the words “Lee Rigby’s killers should hang” on the RAF Bomber Command War Memorial in London has been jailed for 12 weeks, BBC News reports. Daniel Smith admitted two counts of causing criminal damage on 5 June, at Westminster Magistrates’...
Luton North MP, Kelvin Hopkins, has tabled an Early Day Motion (786) in support of Interpal urging that the US administration remove the charity from its list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) after a New York court ruled earlier this year that the charity had never funded any...
