July 2003
Some stories
Hull: Hundreds of asylum seekers protest against racism
Around 300 asylum seekers - mostly Iraqi Kurds - gathered at Pearson Park in Hull this week to demand a stronger response from Humberside police to the racist attacks they are suffering.
30 July 2003 (516 words)
Michael Menson: no police officers charged over failed investigation
No charges will be brought against any police officer in connection with the two botched investigations of the 1997 murder of the black musician Michael Menson (who was found on the street, doused in petrol and with multiple burns, from which he died) even though the Police Complaints Authority found negligence and racism in the investigations.
29 July 2003 (156 words)
Race attack victim wins damages against police
Francisco Borg, a 22-year-old black man sprayed with CS gas by police after pleading for protection from a gang of skinheads in 1997, has been awarded £40,000 in damages by Cardiff County Court.
29 July 2003 (91 words)
Deaths involving police
Christopher Alder - police cleared
29 July 2003 (525 words)
Traveller child killed, but police stay silent on racism motive
Johnny Delaney, a 15-year-old member of a traveller family was left to die in the middle of a playing field in Ellesmere Port.
29 July 2003 (85 words)
Racism and the courts
Oldham 'race riot' update: light sentences for neo-Nazis
29 July 2003 (189 words)
Focus on Northern Ireland
There is increasing evidence that racial violence in Northern Ireland is being co-ordinated by white supremacist movements *
29 July 2003 (919 words)
Racial violence and the war aftermath
According to a report in the Guardian, David Blunkett, home secretary, declared that attacks on ethnic minorities had, against expectation, actually fallen during the war on Iraq.
29 July 2003 (507 words)
Racism in football
FA under pressure to act
29 July 2003 (281 words)
Update: far-Right political parties in Europe
In its latest review of the successes and losses of far-Right and anti-immigrant electoral parties in Europe, the Institute of Race Relations notes that extreme-Right immigration and law and order policies are being incorporated into the agenda of mainstream centre-Right parties; extreme-Right electoral parties are appealing increasingly to rural constituencies; and new political parties are emerging, whose policies are shaped almost entirely by an anti-immigration agenda.
24 July 2003 (632 words)
Racist murder of Zahid Mubarek: questions remain unanswered
An appeal hearing at the House of Lords began this week on behalf of Zahid Mubarek's family, who are fighting for the right to have a fully independent, public investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. In March 2000, 19-year-old Zahid was murdered by a known racist who had been put in the same cell as him at Feltham Young Offenders Institute.
17 July 2003 (563 words)
Victims of racist harassment need independent support groups, research finds
A study, published this week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has found that independent, community-based support groups offer victims of racism a sense of empowerment and a validation of their experience that they are not finding from other agencies, such as the police, housing departments or racial equality councils.
17 July 2003 (997 words)
Use of fingerprints to be tested on Sri Lankans
Sri Lankans who apply for a visa to come to the UK are to be fingerprinted in a six-month pilot scheme. If successful, similar measures will be deployed for other countries.
10 July 2003 (870 words)
Oldham: Asian boy left unconscious after racist attack
A 16-year-old boy was left with a fractured skull after being attacked and racially abused by a group of teenagers in Chadderton this week.
10 July 2003 (122 words)