Violence and harassment in United Kingdom
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Racism termed 'the new terrorism' in Northern Ireland
Community leaders in Northern Ireland have warned that racism is threatening to replace terrorism in a rising tide of attacks and incidents on immigrant workers and asylum seekers.
18 October 2004 (336 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)
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 and prisons
Black prisoner killed in Long Lartin
5 September 2002 (107 words)
North London synagogue attacked
Vandals attacked a Finsbury Park synagogue in one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in recent years.
1 August 2002 (103 words)
Racist attacks in Greater Manchester
Armed men attack asylum accommodation
1 January 2002 (266 words)
More violence against dispersed asylum seekers
Hull - asylum seeker has throat cut
1 October 2001 (102 words)
The death of Firsat Dag and the failure of Scottish dispersal
A Kurdish asylum seeker was murdered on 5 August in the Sighthill area of Glasgow.
1 October 2001 (1606 words)
Prison death
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is to launch an investigation into discrimination in the prison service after prisoner Robert Stewart was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a young Asian prisoner at Feltham Young Offenders Institute in London in March 2000.
1 January 2001 (371 words)
Racist attacks and the police response
A serious attack on a British holiday-maker has focused attention on the police handling of racial violence.
1 January 2001 (469 words)
County Armagh - anti-traveller attacks increase
The ERRC reports an increase in the number of racist attacks directed at travellers in Newry, County Armagh.
1 March 2000 (67 words)
Three people killed and over one hundred injured in London racist bomb campaign
Three people died and over a hundred people were injured over a three-week period in April during which a neo-Nazi bomber placed primitive bombs made of explosive and nails in the heart of London's Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities in Brixton, south London, Brick Lane, east London and in a gay pub in Soho, in the capital's centre.
1 November 1999 (786 words)
Government announces evacuation of asylum-seekers as violence erupts in Dover
Following violence in the south-east port-town of Dover, the government has announced that in future all new asylum-seekers arriving in Dover will be dispersed across the country.
1 November 1999 (420 words)
Wales police prosecute two black youths attacked by neo-nazis
Two young black men from Cardiff, who defended themselves from a racist attack by neo-nazis, are considering suing the police who arrested them and charged them with violent disorder and actual bodily harm.
1 October 1998 (188 words)
Racist attacks
Army accused of abusing black schoolchildren
1 May 1998 (253 words)
Asian student dies in mysterious circumstances
A 20-year-old Asian student, Lakhvinder Reel, died in mysterious circumstances in October.
1 February 1998 (150 words)
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