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Questionable Convictions
Wrong man was executed in Texas

Wrong man was executed in Texas

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid…

16/05/2012No CommentRead More

Jeremy Bamber appeal bid rejected

Jeremy Bamber appeal bid rejected

Jeremy Bamber’s convictions for murdering five of his relatives more than 25 years ago will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, officials said today. The notorious…

01/05/2012No CommentRead More

Custody Deaths

Family of man shot dead by Police ‘in limbo’ over investigation

Family of man shot dead by Police ‘in limbo’ over investigation

The family of a man shot in a car by a police firearms officer claim…

16/05/20121 CommentRead More

Ex-BART cop who shot Oscar Grant appealing ruling

Ex-BART cop who shot Oscar Grant appealing ruling

Johannes Mehserle, the disgraced BART police officer who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for…

16/05/20121 CommentRead More

Station launches in memory of Smiley Culture

Station launches in memory of Smiley Culture

A new community radio station will launch at the exclusive Roxbury nightclub on Croydon High…

12/05/2012No CommentRead More

Police sergeants on misconduct charge over death

Police sergeants on misconduct charge over death

Craig Young, 39, suffered a cardiac arrest in a cell at Cheadle Heath police station,…

12/05/2012No CommentRead More

Breaking News & Digests

New Cases on 4WardEver: May 2012

New Cases on 4WardEver: May 2012

Cases recently added to our website. Please note: Not all cases are recent. We are continuously adding to profiles featured on the 4WardEver website.…

12/05/2012No CommentRead More

Police handcuff 12-year-old girl

Police handcuff 12-year-old girl

Police could be sued by a mother who says officers handcuffed her 12-year-old daughter during a raid in her home. “We are in the process of taking legal…

07/05/2012No CommentRead More

Protesters call to replace IPCC

Protesters call to replace IPCC

Protesters have called for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to be replaced with a new body. They demonstrated outside the central London office of the IPCC, which…

02/05/2012No CommentRead More

Appeals, Petitions

Criminal Justice Petition: Prosecute the killer of Trayvon Martin

Criminal Justice Petition: Prosecute the killer of Trayvon Martin

The Travyon Family: "On February 26, our son Trayvon Martin was shot and killed as he walked to a family member's…

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How to Deal with the FIT!

How to Deal with the FIT!

The police snoop on protests and protesters in many…

Protesters call to replace IPCC

Protesters call to replace IPCC

Protesters have called for the Independent Police Complaints Commission…

Protest: Abolish the IPCC

Protest: Abolish the IPCC

This event has been organised by the Campaign for…

Web News: Gallery4Justice upgraded…

Web News: Gallery4Justice upgraded…

Gallery4Justice is an initiative of 4WardEver Campaign UK, and…

Scandalous police misbehaviour is nothing new

Scandalous police misbehaviour is nothing new

The sickening racism that appears to have been directed…

Remembering Christopher Alder

Remembering Christopher Alder

On Sunday 1 April, the family of Christopher Alder…

Trayvon Martin: justice department to investigate unarmed teen’s killing

Trayvon Martin: justice department to investigate unarmed teen’s killing

The US justice department has launched an investigation into…

Pepper-sprayed U.C. Davis students tell their story

Pepper-sprayed U.C. Davis students tell their story

Fatima Sbeih was riding her bike after afternoon prayer,…

Afghans march to protest violence against women

Afghans march to protest violence against women

Members of Afghan Young Women for Change staged a…

Staff deporting foreigners out of UK ‘loutish and aggressive’

Staff deporting foreigners out of UK ‘loutish and aggressive’

The private company hired by the government to deport…

Extremism, ethnic cleansing and nationalist rhetoric in Sri Lanka

Extremism, ethnic cleansing and nationalist rhetoric in Sri Lanka

Rhetoric1 derives from a long standing enquiry into the…

Japan sends three prisoners to the gallows after 20-month break

Japan sends three prisoners to the gallows after 20-month break

Japan on Thursday resumed its use of capital punishment…

Trayvon Martin: Sanford protest demands an arrest

Trayvon Martin: Sanford protest demands an arrest

Civil-rights leaders from the NAACP and other groups led…

Twice the chance of asylum in Australia than Europe or UK

Twice the chance of asylum in Australia than Europe or UK

Asylum seekers from Iraq, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are…

Criminal Justice Petition: Prosecute the killer of Trayvon Martin

Criminal Justice Petition: Prosecute the killer of Trayvon Martin

The Travyon Family: "On February 26, our son Trayvon…

Death penalty proponents, foes testify at marathon hearing on repeal

Death penalty proponents, foes testify at marathon hearing on repeal

For the third time since 2009, the legislature's judiciary…

Family of Trayvon meet Stephen Lawrence’s mother

Family of Trayvon meet Stephen Lawrence’s mother

The family of Trayvon Martin, the young black teenager…

Met police’s race problems continue, say Kester David’s family

Met police’s race problems continue, say Kester David’s family

The family of a black man found burned to…

Arsema Dawit death: High Court orders inquest

Arsema Dawit death: High Court orders inquest

The mother of a teenager who was stabbed to…

Women charged over murder of Simon Tang in Carrickfergus

Women charged over murder of Simon Tang in Carrickfergus

Two women have been charged in connection with the…

Remember Troy Davis, victim of a racist system

Remember Troy Davis, victim of a racist system

Death penalty cases show the reality of U.S. criminal…

Michelle Obama says Trayvon Martin’s death a ‘tragedy’ and Americans should rally around his parents

Michelle Obama says Trayvon Martin’s death a ‘tragedy’ and Americans should rally around his parents

First Lady Michelle Obama called Trayvon Martin's death a…

Case reopened on Kester David’s ‘nightmare’ death

Case reopened on Kester David’s ‘nightmare’ death

Investigations have been reopened into the death of a…

Babar and the injustice of the US/UK extradition laws

Babar and the injustice of the US/UK extradition laws

Last night's BBC interview from a high-security prison with…

Man’s death at Gatwick Airport investigated by IPCC

Man’s death at Gatwick Airport investigated by IPCC

The death of a man following an incident at…

Supreme Court ruling welcomed by rights organisations

Supreme Court ruling welcomed by rights organisations

The unanimous ruling, which has been welcomed by leading…

IPCC launch investigation after patient restrained by police dies

IPCC launch investigation after patient restrained by police dies

Police watchdogs are to investigate the death of a…

IAP publish statistical analysis of all recorded deaths: 2000-2010

IAP publish statistical analysis of all recorded deaths: 2000-2010

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP)…

Pilkington deaths: no charges against police

Pilkington deaths: no charges against police

Leicestershire Police announce that they will bring no charges…

Family issues appeal over Jason Pearce custody death

Family issues appeal over Jason Pearce custody death

The family of a Shropshire man who died in…

Scathing verdict from jury on conclusion of inquest into death of psychiatric patient

Scathing verdict from jury on conclusion of inquest into death of psychiatric patient

On 6 May 2011 the jury returned a decisive…

Inquest into death of High Wycombe man Marcus Cottoy

Inquest into death of High Wycombe man Marcus Cottoy

A 31-year-old man who feared ‘people were after him’…

Nigerian Prisons: Death traps or reform centres?

Nigerian Prisons: Death traps or reform centres?

Prisons in Nigeria are dehumanising. Olaolu Olusina, with additional…

How can the prison service move on if it won’t apologise for child abuse?

How can the prison service move on if it won’t apologise for child abuse?

As prisons correspondent for the Guardian, I have covered…

Death in prison custody 2011 published

Death in prison custody 2011 published

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced that there…

Women’s prisons in desperate need of reform, says former governor

Women’s prisons in desperate need of reform, says former governor

One of the country's most experienced prison governors has…

Boy found unconscious at HM Prison Cookham Wood dies

Boy found unconscious at HM Prison Cookham Wood dies

A 15-year-old boy has died after being found unconscious…

Unlawful restraint widespread in child jails for a decade, says judge

Unlawful restraint widespread in child jails for a decade, says judge

The unlawful use of restraint was widespread in privately…

Anger at Met Police tactics on demo

Anger at Met Police tactics on demo

Campaigners challenged Metropolitan Police commissioner Bernard Hogan‑Howe last Thursday…

Two HMP Preston officers charged after death of inmate

Two HMP Preston officers charged after death of inmate

Two prison officers have been charged following the death…

Policy & Reform

Nigerian Prisons: Death traps or reform centres?

Prisons in Nigeria are dehumanising. Olaolu Olusina, with additional reports from Davidson Iriekpen and Chiemele Ezeobi, examine the state of the nation’s prisons as well as the…

16/05/2012No Comment

How to Deal with the FIT!

The police snoop on protests and protesters in many ways. They call it ‘intelligence gathering’. Some of this is done by murky methods, with undercover police and…

10/05/20121 Comment

The State

How can the prison service move on if it won’t apologise for child abuse?

As prisons correspondent for the Guardian, I have covered many stories that have angered me. It could hardly be otherwise, writing as I am about a penal…

01/05/2012No Comment

Dame Anne Owers appointed as IPCC chief

The former chief inspector of prisons Dame Anne Owers has been appointed to lead the independent police watchdog. The appointment comes after nearly two years in which…

24/02/2012No Comment

State Terror

Babar Ahmad case tramples on law and fair play

Along with four other British Muslim terror suspects, Ahmad has just lost a battle against extradition from Britain to the United States in the European Court of…

21/04/2012No Comment

Extremism, ethnic cleansing and nationalist rhetoric in Sri Lanka

Rhetoric1 derives from a long standing enquiry into the power of oral persuasion. It is linked to the combined use of language, symbology, mutually derived identity and…

09/04/2012No Comment

Police Corruption

Met police’s race problems continue, say Kester David’s family

The family of a black man found burned to death have condemned police chiefs for failing to start disciplinary action against officers blamed by an internal report…

07/05/2012No Comment

Former GMP officer sentenced to eight months imprisonment

Dominic Paul Griffiths, 29, of Blenmar Close, Radcliffe was charged following an investigation managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The former Detective Constable in the North…

01/05/20121 Comment

New Case Profiles

New Cases on 4WardEver: May 2012

Cases recently added to our website. Please note: Not all cases are recent. We are continuously adding to profiles featured on the 4WardEver website.…

12/05/2012No Comment

Refugees & Asylum

Staff deporting foreigners out of UK ‘loutish and aggressive’

The private company hired by the government to deport foreign nationals has decided to place its own guards under surveillance after concluding that some lack respect for…

18/04/2012No Comment

Print & Film

Controversial BART shooting will become a movie

Hayward resident Oscar Grant III's life will make it to the big screen in a movie titled "Fruitvale," the name of the Oakland BART station where he…

07/05/2012No Comment

What's On Events

Protest: Abolish the IPCC

This event has been organised by the Campaign for Justice to call for the IPCC to be abolished. Amongst its arguments is the startling statistic that less…

22/04/2012No Comment