Category: Announce
Unproven science used to ‘explain’ custody deaths
‘Excited delirium’ or ‘sudden-in-custody-death-syndrome’ is a niche diagnosis not yet recognised by the World Health Organisation or any international authority. A number of leading pathologists have expressed concern about the use of the term in inquests.
Rate of deaths in custody is higher than officials admit
The number of people who have died after being forcibly restrained in police custody is higher than officially stated, an investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Independent reveals today.
Event Reminder : Deaths in Custody – A Case to Answer
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism invites you to the launch of its six-month investigation into deaths in police custody. The Bureau’s investigation will also air at 8pm on BBC Radio 4’s flagship investigations programme, File on 4.
Britain Bans Press TV
For the first time, British government censors have banned a 24-hour news channel from British viewers. As of the afternoon, UK-time, 20th January 2012, viewers of Press TV, an avowedly anti-imperialist TV channel headquartered in Tehran and featuring many of
Obama signs order to close Guantanamo
Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be
United families launch 100,000 No:10 custody deaths petition
The United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) have launched an ambitious petition appeal that calls for an independent judicial inquiry into all suspicious deaths in custody. The United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a coalition of families and friends
Event: Deaths in Custody – A Case to Answer (please show support)
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism invites you to the launch of its six-month investigation into deaths in police custody. The Bureau’s investigation will also air at 8pm on BBC Radio 4’s flagship investigations programme, File on 4.
Racism allegations against police spiral
Over the past four years complaints of racism against the police have risen by almost a third, an investigation by the Mirror has found. The report reveals ‘almost three allegations are being lodged every day and the total number of
Police held diary that could have been used in Eddie Gilfoyle trial
A diary which could have been used as evidence in the trial of a man jailed for murdering his eight and a half months pregnant wife was not made available by Merseyside Police. Eddie Gilfoyle was locked up in 1993
Stephen Lawrence: Police say new information has come in
Detectives in the Stephen Lawrence case were given new information during the trial of two men convicted for his murder, it has been revealed. Police said there had been at least five calls from the public and the information was
