2007
Some stories
Evidence on assaults and abuse during deportation collected
A coalition of groups assisting asylum seekers, including Medical Justice and the National Coalition of Anti Deportation Campaigns, is collecting information on alleged cases of assault during removal.
13 December 2007 (123 words)
White man sentenced for murder
On 11 December, Peter Connolly was sentenced to life - with a minimum term of fifteen years in prison - for the murder of Christopher Alaneme, an 18-year-old who died after being stabbed in Sheerness, Kent on 21 April 2006.
13 December 2007 (493 words)
Eight-year sentence for killing
A 21-year-old Preston man has been sentenced to eight years in jail for the killing of Shezan Umarji in July 2006.
6 December 2007 (550 words)
Anti-Zionist Jews fight anti-Semitism charge
An action against the accusation of anti-Semitism brought by a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist in the UK has been settled out of court, but in Germany, the appeal court in Frankfurt recently upheld an accusation that an anti-Zionist holocaust survivor was in fact anti-Semitic and suffering from self-hatred.
5 December 2007 (584 words)
What to do in the event of an asylum-seeker death
A guide on what to do in the event of the death of an asylum seeker has been published by the Institute of Race Relations.
28 November 2007 (515 words)
Algeria seeks extradition of political refugee who denounced terror
An Algerian exile, with refugee rights in Germany, has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to Algeria.
22 November 2007 (433 words)
The friends of Amdani Juma
An anti-deportation campaign has been launched in aid of Amdani Juma, a Burundian refugee who has been refused indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
15 November 2007 (558 words)
Traveller death marked by drama
Cwmni'r Frân Wen, a professional educational theatre company, has produced a new play about Johnny Delaney, who was murdered in 2003 on the outskirts of Ellesmere Port, when a gang of youths reacted towards his Irish accent and attacked him.
8 November 2007 (432 words)
Rebels and trouble makers
A controversial exhibition of portraits of people, whose courage, bloody mindedness and instinct for rebellion, have enhanced London's radical tradition, has opened at City Hall.
6 November 2007 (157 words)
National campaign against anti-terror laws
Community groups across the UK and human rights organisations have come together to campaign against proposed new anti-terror laws.
1 November 2007 (196 words)
Iconic symbol - too negative!
IRR News has learnt that a university in the Midlands has stopped one of its student societies from using an iconic Black Power symbol on a poster advertising a Black History Month event at the university.
25 October 2007 (160 words)
Stop the Islamophobia of Europe
As the far-Right organisation Stop the Islamisation of Europe holds its first demonstration in London (to coincide with the US' 'Islamo-fascism' Awareness week) the IRR's European Race Bulletin argues that European countries' new security laws are removing Muslim communities from the protection of the ordinary rule of law and legitimising the Islamophobia of extreme-Right movements and parties across Europe.
25 October 2007 (343 words)
IRR News develops new 'learning the lessons' workshops
Practical workshops, learning from past struggles against racism, are being organised by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) for newly arrived refugee/asylum seeker and migrant groups.
18 October 2007 (189 words)
New report criticises age-assessment procedures for asylum-seeking children
Every year, thousands of individuals who arrive in the UK and claim asylum as separated children are age disputed and treated as adults. A new report, released by the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association, examines the reasons why age is disputed, current policy and procedures for the assessment of age by local authorities, and the implications of age disputes for separated children seeking asylum in the UK.
18 October 2007 (430 words)
Building an anti-deportation campaign
A practical, political guide for those fighting to remain in this country has just been produced.
18 October 2007 (241 words)
IRR News listed for investigative journalism award
IRR News' original investigations into the incidence of suicide by asylum seekers was long-listed twice over for the Paul Foot award for campaigning journalism 2007.
18 October 2007 (202 words)
John Berger: truth-sayer in an age of lies
A. Sivanandan welcomes John Berger, who read from a work in progress From A to X (love letters written to a political prisoner serving a life sentence) at an event on 4 October, entitled Against the Great Defeat of the World, to mark thirty-five years since the conception of IRR's journal, Race & Class.
11 October 2007 (780 words)
Access to healthcare should be a right, not a fight
The government is currently considering charging failed asylum seekers and undocumented migrants for NHS primary health care.
4 October 2007 (260 words)
Part of the problem or part of the solution?
Why, asks a new report, was the Commission for Racial Equality's policy shift on multiculturalism not subjected to a full race equality impact assessment?
28 September 2007 (317 words)
Iraqi asylum seeker killed two weeks after return
On 6 September, Solyman Rashed, an asylum seeker who had been deported to Iraq from the UK, was killed by a car bomb in Kirkuk, after only having been back in the country for two weeks.
27 September 2007 (431 words)