Category: Breaking News & Digests
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.
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
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
Lynette White case: Police trial collapses
South Wales Police says it has asked the police watchdog to investigate after the UK's biggest case involving alleged police corruption collapsed. Eight former officers were cleared of perverting the course of justice at Swansea Crown Court after the wrongful
Police to investigate mortuary ‘mix up’
Christopher Alder, 37, choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull, in the early hours of April 1 1998. It now appears a Hull pensioner of Nigerian descent, Grace Kamara, was buried
We will fight on, vows the 83-year-old mother again denied justice
An 83-year-old mother was turned away from the Home Office on Tuesday after travelling from Wales to seek justice for the son who was murdered 25 years ago. Isobel Hulsmann vowed that she would “not go away” as she seeks
The new Met police commissioner’s in-tray
The priorities facing Bernard Hogan-Howe according to Londoners and campaigners keeping an eye on Scotland Yard. Hackney heroine Pauline Pearce says Met police commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe needs to 'get to the bottom' of the riots.
Armed police stop and search Birmingham girls aged nine and 15
Two young sisters aged nine and 15 were stopped by armed police hunting robbery suspects as the girls walked to a nearby school to collect exam results. The girls’ outraged mother today demanded an apology and accused the officers of
Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says the IPCC
Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police sparked London's riots, did not fire a shot at police officers before they killed him, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said on Tuesday. Releasing the initial findings of ballistics tests, the police watchdog said
