1995
Some stories
Police raids follow arrest of NSDAP-NO leader
Following the arrest of Gary Lauck in Denmark, German police raided eighty homes, seizing ammunition, weapons and propaganda.
1 June 1995 (79 words)
Kurdish refugees denied access to hospital treatment
North Middlesex hospital has been reported to the Commission for Racial Equality over allegations that it is refusing to treat Kurdish refugees.
11 April 1995 (103 words)
Albanian asylum-seeker assaulted in detention centre
Amnesty International has taken up the case of a 22-year-old ethnic Albanian asylum-seeker from Kosovo who has made a criminal complaint of ill-treatment against officials at East Vienna detention centre where he was held in pre-expulsion detention in April 1994.
1 April 1995 (168 words)
Focus on Combat 18
Neo-nazis cause football riot
1 April 1995 (243 words)
Airlines and ferries owe £22m to immigration service in unpaid fines
A public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, says that airlines and ferry companies owe the immigration service more than £22m in unpaid fines for bringing passengers to Britain without proper documentation.
1 April 1995 (109 words)
Illigal immigrants scare leads to new immigration measures
Following the resignation of a former immigration minister from the Conservative government, the government has announced a review of the immigration service and new measures to cut down on appeals and speed up asylum application processes.
1 April 1995 (198 words)
University protests deportation of Zimbabwean student leader
Brighton University has protested to the Home Office following the deportation of the president of the students union.
1 April 1995 (95 words)
Victims of torture detained in British prisons
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture reports that of 47 asylum-seekers visited by the foundation in detention centres, evidence of torture could be produced in 45 cases.
1 April 1995 (150 words)
Black woman humiliated by strip search
A 35-year-old black mother of three says she was strip-searched while having her period on her return from Jamaica.
1 April 1995 (91 words)
Fear of deportation led to suicides
A woman from Latvia, who feared deportation, and her daughter have been found hanged at a house in County Durham.
1 April 1995 (73 words)
Turkish secret police accused of attacks on Kurds
Turkish secret police have been accused of carrying out a spate of attacks on London-based Kurdish activists, including the attempted assasination of Nafiz Bostanci, an outspoken critic of the Turkish regime.
1 April 1995 (101 words)
Racist murder in Blackburn
Mushtaq Hussain, 49, was beaten to death in Great Harwood, near Blackburn, Lancashire by a gang of white youths who racially abused him outside a pizza takeaway before setting upon him.
1 April 1995 (54 words)
Man acquitted for part played in racist attack
A white man, John Rutter, charged with affray was acquitted by a unanimous decision from the jury, for his part in a vicious attack on Quddus Ali, a 17-year-old Bengali youth from East London.
1 April 1995 (123 words)
Law enforcement official sexually molested Vietnamese refugees
A court in the eastern German city of Frankfurt-on-Oder, on the Polish border, has sentenced a law enforcement officer, to three years imprisonment, after it was found that he sexually molested Vietnamese refugees who he threatened with deportation unless they submitted to him
1 March 1995 (52 words)
Nigerian man dies in custody of Stoke Newington police
Two police officers have been suspended following the death of a 34-year old Nigerian decorator, Oluwashiji Lapite who died 30 minutes after being stopped by police in Stoke Newington, north London.
1 March 1995 (131 words)
Police racism in stop and search powers
Following a parliamentary question, it has been revealed that forty-two per cent of those stopped and searched by the police in London were from ethnic minorities.
1 March 1995 (54 words)
Rise in civil actions
The Home Office have reinstated a policeman who was sacked after it was shown that he attacked a black man with a truncheon.
1 March 1995 (71 words)
Spotlight on Manchester police force
Campaigners are demanding a public inquiry into police racism throughout the Greater Manchester area following a series of well-publicised cases.
1 March 1995 (124 words)
African witness to arrest hospitalised
A Zairian man who protested at the violence of a police arrest has himself been hospitalised.
1 March 1995 (97 words)
Population research institute dissolved
Christine Höhn, president of the Federal Institute for Population Research, has been reinstated after her suspension for comments made at the Cairo conference on population control.
1 March 1995 (64 words)