IRR News Service

A police officer accused of making false statements about UAF campaigner Alan Clough regarding a 2010 anti-EDL demonstration has walked free from court.

Nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint of mental health patients were recorded in 2011-12. Over 3,000 were in the dangerous face down position, while 949 resulted in injury.

An inspection by the Human Tissue Authority, following the mix-up over the body of Christopher Alder who died in police custody, has found areas of concern.

Two men who racially attacked and injured a Muslim man on the tube last year have been given six month prison sentences, suspended for 18 months. The men have also been banned from EDL demonstrations.

The King of Jordan has endorsed a treaty with the UK which guarantees a fair trial for Abu Qatada in Jordan and will pave the way for his deportation.

The Traveller Law Reform Project has revealed that only four out of 115 councils in the east and south-east of England are complying with requirements to identify and provide sites for Travellers.

In Scotland, a 321 per cent increase in religiously aggravated offences directed against Islam, from 19 in 2011/12 to 80 in 2012/13, has been linked to the Scottish Defence League, with 57 incidents occurring at one of its demonstrations.

Four asylum seekers were released from Harmondsworth IRC last week after going on hunger-strike, one of whom was at ‘death’s door’. However, they had already been assessed as medically unfit for detention.

Linda Briskman and Scott Pontying discuss the mainstream media’s implication in fuelling anti-Muslim hate-crime.

Tony Perrin, 25, from Norbury has been jailed for four months after admitting posting a picture of himself with a gun and threats to kill Muslims on Facebook.

Detectives are continuing to work through a list of suspects in connection with the stabbing of Mohammed Saleem in Green Lane, Small Heath earlier this year. His body has still not been released for burial.

Six police officers are under investigation by the IPCC following the arrest of a 19-year-old black student in Bedford on 6 May 2013 who remains a serious condition in hospital.

An inquest has been opened into the death of Smiley Culture, who police claim stabbed himself during a raid on his home in London in 2011.

A parliamentary human rights committee has condemned the treatment of child asylum seekers, acknowledging that immigration control is put before their well-being.

A man who attacked a mosque in Bournemouth following the murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich has pleaded guilty to racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage. He will be sentenced at the end of June.

A delegation of far-right European politicians, including BNP leader Nick Griffin, has visited Syria on a ‘fact-finding’ mission.

After the Radio 4 Today programme’s interview with Tommy Robinson, Mehdi Hasan has come up with a list of alternative questions that could have been put to the EDL leader.

A white cyclist tried to pull off a Muslim woman’s veil in Leicester at the weekend. The woman was targeted as she was walking with her family to a local park.

Bristol based charity Support Against Racist Incidents has warned that a drop in reports of racial violence may be a consequence of victims being scared of reprisals.

The BBC has been criticised for giving EDL leader, Tommy Robinson, a platform to voice his racist views during an interview on its Radio 4 flagship programme, Today.

Under new proposals councils in Wales could face prosecution for failing to provide pitches for Gypsies and Travellers.