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Last Saturday’s sombre affair saw hundreds of people come out in support of the Rigg family who led a candle lit vigil outside the police station where the musician and songwriter spend his last moments inexplicably naked on a concrete floor in a metal cage within the police compound.
Organised by the Sean Rigg Justice and Change campaign, this memorial also secured to support of organisations, such as INQUEST, Newham Monitoring Project (NMP), Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) and United Campaign Against Police Violence (UCAPV) and family members from across the UK, who have been affected by this issue.
The Home Secretary should lift the ban on marches in a city or risk making protesters more radical, a think-tank said today. Banning protests from extremist groups was an ineffective way of combating their ideology, Demos said.
The warning comes as police in Bradford continue to plan for clashes between supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) and their opponents this weekend – despite Home Secretary Theresa May authorising a blanket ban on marches in the city.
Jamie Bartlett, a researcher at Demos, said banning the march “could push members of the English Defence League into more radical groups like Combat 18 or the Racial Volunteer Force”.
Panda smuggling and grave robbing are among the death penalty offenses up for review. But the revisions aren’t expected to lower the world’s highest execution rate.
Grave robbers and panda smugglers would no longer face the death penalty under criminal code changes being weighed by China, home to the world’s most active executioners.
A committee of the National People’s Congress this week opened discussions on eliminating the death penalty as punishment for 13 crimes, including the smuggling of silver and gold, receipt fraud, tax cheating and the theft of fossils. Grave robbery and rare-animal smuggling are also among the crimes being considered for lighter sentences.
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