Police watchdog, The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), named him as Jason Lennon as it launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 37-year-old's death. Read more
4WardEver Campaign UK : for justice and rights
Established June 2006. Our purpose is to provide a one-stop-resource for case profiles, news and event details, useful resources, statistics, appeals, and more in relation to deaths and abuses whilst in custody; including the death penalty, other injustices and human rights abuses in the UK and internationally.
Capital Punishment
On July 25, the US Attorney General announced that the federal government would once again practice capital punishment in relation to five death-row inmates convicted of murder, torture and rape of children and the elderly. Read more
- Update: Rodney Reed supporters take to capitol to demand new trial
- Trump administration’s change to capital punishment policy worries some
- Pakistan has announced a partial rescind of capital punishment
- New Hampshire repeals death penalty
- New Film: “Trial By Fire,” – Did Texas execute an innocent man?
- News Update : The California death penalty has been suspended
Human Rights
Grenfell group attacks lack of progress before second anniversary
Survivors and bereaved of Grenfell Tower are to tell the government that it risks allowing a second... Read more
What's On Events
Stage play inspired by Sheku Bayoh to examine Scotland’s racist underbelly
A powerful new play inspired by the case of a father-of-two who died in police custody in Scotland a... Read more
