A police force has vowed to make improvements after a man took heroin in his cell and died. Leroy Junior Medford was being watched at a police station in Reading in April 2017, after he was suspected of concealing drugs internally. 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
The American justice system should be on death row. With each day that innocent people await execution for crimes they did not commit, the very institutions meant to ensure justice become engines of inequality and inhumanity. Read more
- New Film Review : The Clemency Review – LFF 2019
- Family and nun fight for retrial as man convicted by all-white jury faces death penalty
- New evidence of innocence spurs two court filings for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Revival of federal death penalty is five steps backwards for mankind
- Op-ed: We should kill capital punishment
- Update: Rodney Reed supporters take to capitol to demand new trial
Human Rights
Eritrea: 28 prisoners of conscience must be immediately and unconditionally released
The Eritrean government must release the 11 politicians and 17 journalists who were arrested in 2001... Read more
What's On Events
Announcement of the UFFC Annual Rally & Procession 2019
Every year since 1999, the UFFC holds its annual remembrance procession from Trafalgar Square to Dow... Read more
