Tributes & Remembrance

Respect & Remembrance

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About our brother, Gilly
Gilly Mundy, senior caseworker with INQUEST, and ardent campaigner for human rights, has passed away after suffering a severe stroke. He was just 36 years old. Gilly’s friends and supporters have set up a memorial webpage.

Albie Sachs
After losing an arm and an eye in a car-bombing, anti-apartheid activist Albie Sachs wrote his way to recovery. He was integral to South Africa ‘s rebirth.

Anthony Walker
A-Level student Anthony Walker, aged 18, died in hospital after a gang of up to four white men attacked him in Huyton, Merseyside in July 2005

Aung San Suu Kyi
Like the South African leader Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of heroic and peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In 1989, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali Muslim, supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. But on moving to Europe her views changed and she turned against Islam.

Brian Haw
A protestor in Parliament Square since June 2001. He protests on behalf of those innocent people who suffer and die in other countries, as governments seek to further their political and strategic interests around the world.

Doreen Lawrence NEW
For the family of Doreen Lawrence, the pain and challenges in dealing with the loss of her son Stephen 18 years ago continue, and change. They permeate even the imagination of her granddaughter Mia, aged seven, who was born years after his murder.

Impact of INJUSTICE
July 2006 marked 5 years since the release of INJUSTICE. The film has continued to succeed despite the attempts by the police to suppress it.

John Bowden
John Bowden was arrested in 1980, then a young man, for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1992, after years of brutality and repression, he managed to escape and was on the run from the police for a year and a half.

John La Rose
As a writer, publisher and political organiser, John’s contribution to the development of Black cultural expression in the UK cannot be rivalled.

Kelso Cochrane NEW
On 17th May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old carpenter from Antigua, was killed by a group of white youths in Notting Hill Gate. No one was ever convicted.

Letty Scott
On February 14, Letty Marie Scott (nee Gibson) Nupanunga, of the Anmatyerre nation in Central Australia, passed away, aged 56. Letty was a lifelong campaigner for justice.

Marian Wright Edelman NEW
Marian Wright Edelman is a lifelong advocate for disadvantaged Americans and is the Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families.

Martina Davis-Correia NEW
For 22 years, Martina struggled to make sure the world knew her brother (Troy Davis’) story. She led an international campaign, partnering with Amnesty International and the NAACP, to save her brother’s life and prove his innocence.

Pauline’s Story
“Women are being detained in prisons that cannot meet their human needs. Breaches of Article 2 (right to life), and Article 3 (inhumane and degrading treatment) continue to shame the Prison Service”.

Restraint ‘by law’
In 2004 15 year old Gareth Myatt died whilst being “restrained” by three members of staff at a privatized children’s prison called Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in Warwickshire. In the same year 14 year old Adam Rickwood hanged himself in another privatized children’s jail, Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in Co. Durham.

Steve Cohen
Steve Cohen, who died at the age of 63 on 8th March, became a revolutionary socialist early in life, in the late 1960s.

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.