Category: Audio & Film
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
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.
The Stephen Lawrence case and another Injustice
The news about the Lawrence verdict and sentencing took me back to the mid-1990s – the case has been hanging for such a shameful length of time – when we journalists stood around gaping at Paul Dacre's sensational "Murderers" headline
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
Not the Queen’s speech, Brian Haw’s
Brian Haw staged a peace protest on London's Parliament Square since June 2001 to his death in 2011, trying to change Britain's policy on Iraq. This is his Christmas message. "Not the Queen's speech, Brian Haw's".
“Injustice” Film at Ratstar
On occasion of the 13th March against Deaths in Custody next Saturday October 29 called for by the United Friends & Families Campaign (UFFC), a screening of the powerful and moving documentary about its origins.
INJUSTICE Film Screening: Birmingham
In 1969 David Oluwale became the first black person to die in police custody in Britain. Many others have died since then, yet none of the police officers involved have been convicted of these deaths. This is a powerful account
New: 4WardEver Tweeters Daily launched
Check it out! This facility grabs news, headlines, images and viudeo submitted on Twitter by our followers and displays them in a news-format website for easier browsing and searching.
PayPal pulls plug on WikiLeaks donations
WikiLeaks has had its donation services pulled by eBay-owned payment service PayPal, effectively cutting off the site's funding. PayPal said in a statement that its services could not be used to "encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in
Pull The Plug on Torture Music
Reprieve launched an new initiative called Pull the Plug - to expose and stop the use of torture music against prisoners of the 'war on terror.' Here, former Guantanamo prisoner Ruhal Ahmed describes his experience of being tortured by earsplitting
