July 2004
Some stories
Alliance to fight anti-Gypsy racism
Two weeks after the CPS announced that it would not prosecute a Sussex bonfire society for burning a caravan bearing effigies of a Gypsy family and the number plate 'P1KEY', activists have decided to form their own Gypsy Bonfire Society to inform people about anti-Gypsy racism.
20 July 2004 (369 words)
Plymouth: former BNP member banned from takeaway
Following his drunken, racist behaviour in May, former BNP member, Gavin Hewett, has been given a night-time ban from every takeaway in Plymouth for five years.
14 July 2004 (224 words)
Campaign frees Banire from detention
Banire Sy Savane, a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, whose case IRR News highlighted last week, has been released from Dover Immigration Removal Centre.
13 July 2004 (285 words)
Are Chinese lives cheaper?
This was one of the questions asked at a meeting held in London on 7 July 2004, to discuss the Morecambe Bay tragedy in which 21 Chinese cockle-pickers drowned after being caught in bad weather and high tides.
8 July 2004 (467 words)
Challenging detention without trial
On 6 July 2004, at the High Court in central London, the appeals began of ten men, all foreign nationals, who are challenging their continued detention without trial under the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001.
8 July 2004 (394 words)