IRR News stories
Calais No Border camp
Before it even started, the Calais No Border Camp was attacked in the right-wing press.
25 June 2009 (422 words)
New exhibition on the Anti-Apartheid movement
A new exhibition has opened at the Museum of London that celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
25 June 2009 (369 words)
Proscription leads to jail for 'decent man'
A packed meeting of the Bar Human Rights Committee on 16 June heard Mark Muller QC and Gareth Peirce describe how the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 forced the jailing of someone the judge said was a 'thoroughly decent man'.
18 June 2009 (427 words)
SOAS occupied after cleaners detained and forcibly removed
Students have taken action after nine cleaners, who campaigned for a 'living wage' whilst working at a top London university, were detained in a dawn raid by immigration officers dressed in full riot gear.
18 June 2009 (605 words)
France: academic freedom under threat
A campaign to safeguard intellectual freedom has been formed in France to support a researcher who faces disciplinary action in connection with his work on Islamophobia.
18 June 2009 (1093 words)
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Forthcoming events
London: Free the North West 10
A meeting organised by the national support group set up to assist ten men arrested under anti terror laws in the North West after high profile police raids.
2 July 2009 (103 words)
Sri Lanka & the Tamils - what's the solution?
A talk at Marxism 2009 on 'Sri Lanka & the Tamils - what's the solution?'
3 July 2009 (57 words)
Supporting asylum seekers in detention
A course designed to enable people, already working with asylum seekers, to provide support to an immigration detainee through a bail hearing.
4 July 2009 (97 words)
News from other sources
croydon guardian
Croydon racist killer jailed for life
Stephen Braithwaite, who was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Nilanthan Murddi after racially abusing him from the back of a taxi in Croydon last year, has been given a life sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of nineteen years.
2 July 2009
guardian
Union takes migrant worker fight to Tesco AGM
Tesco will face accusations at its AGM from Unite, Britain's biggest trade union, that it allows the exploitation of foreign agency workers in its UK meat and poultry supply chains.
2 July 2009
guardian
Report says Met failed to change after de Menezes killing
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has said that Scotland Yard has failed to carry out a series of changes it was ordered to make after disastrous blunders led its officers to kill Jean Charles de Menezes.
2 July 2009
guardian
CCTV images undermine IPCC death in custody claims
Newly obtained CCTV images have shown how Essex police officers carried an apparently bruised and limp Faisal Al-Ani into custody moments before he died, contradicting initial claims by the IPCC that he had walked into the station.
2 July 2009
tyrone times
Eastern European families flee homes in Northern Ireland
Racist attacks on the homes of Polish and Lithuanian families in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland have led to the families, including a pregnant woman and young child, fleeing their homes.
30 June 2009
guardian
White supremacist planned racist bombings
The Old Bailey in London has heard how Neil Lewington, a White supremacist arrested by chance at a railway station in Suffolk, was 'on the cusp' of launching a racist terrorism campaign.
30 June 2009
croydon guardian
Croydon man found guilty of murder in racist attack
Stephen Braithwaite, an unemployed labourer, has been found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Nilanthan Murddi in a racist attack in Croydon last year. He faces a possible life sentence.
29 June 2009
slough observer
Slough man jailed for gruesome racist attack
Mason Fleming has been jailed for thirty months for slashing a 25-year-old Asian man across the ear and hand, racially abusing him and then biting him on his head, face and chest before poking him in the eyes and scratching his face.
29 June 2009
guardian
Belfast Romanians return home after racist attacks
The majority of Romanians subject to racist intimidation in Belfast left for home on Friday, describing how they were returning to an uncertain future.
29 June 2009
guardian
Pipe bomb threat to Roma discovered
Northern Ireland security sources have said that pipe bombs discovered in Belfast last week were to be used to attack more properties housing migrants.
29 June 2009
