South-East England

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bbc news
On extreme-right politics in the United Kingdom Clashes at Brighton anti-fascist demonstration
Clashes between anti-fascists and supporters of the English Nationalist Alliance during demonstrations in Brighton resulted in fourteen arrests and three injuries.
31 August 2010 (external article)

kent online
On violence and harassment in the United Kingdom Kurdish shop owner harassed out of town
Yusuf Boztepe has been forced out of Medway by sustained racial harassment over three years which climaxed with a petrol based explosion outside his shop.
23 August 2010 (external article)

ely weekly news
On violence and harassment in the United Kingdom Family racially harassed by neighbour in Ely
A family was subjected to racial abuse by their drunken neighbour who told them to 'go back to their own country' and smashed up their fence with a baseball bat.
11 August 2010 (external article)

halstead gazette
On violence and harassment in the United Kingdom Romanian couple brutally attacked
A Romanian couple in Halstead were chased by six men who launched 'a brutal and unprovoked racist assault'.
10 August 2010 (external article)

bbc news
On asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom Date set for Oakington closure
Oakington immigration detention centre in Cambridgeshire, which had been due to close in 2006, is to be shut down by November this year.
6 August 2010 (external article)

guardian
On housing in the United Kingdom 1,000 people face eviction from Dale Farm
Dale Farm, the largest Romany and Irish Gypsy Traveller site in the UK, is due to be part demolished after five years of court battles with the local council, with around ninety families facing eviction.
27 July 2010 (external article)

argus
On violence and harassment in the United Kingdom Former Guantanamo detainee's home vandalised
The family home of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes in Saltdean has been attacked again, a brick was thrown through the front room window.
26 July 2010 (external article)

bbc news
On extreme-right politics in the United Kingdom EDL clash in Luton
Members of the English Defence league (EDL) clashed with protesters yesterday in Luton city centre after Kevin Carroll, 41, lost an appeal against his conviction for abusing Muslim protesters during a soldiers' homecoming parade.
23 July 2010 (external article)

guardian
On asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom Yarl's Wood family unit to close
The government has announced that the family wing at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, which detains as many as 1,000 children a year, will close, while the rest of the centre will continue to detain adults.
22 July 2010 (external article)

portsmouth news
On violence and harassment in the United Kingdom Suspended sentence for knife attacker
Alan Pilgrim, from Southsea, has been given a suspended sentence after racially abusing Nolens Masona and his friends, and slashing Masona across the nose with a knife in an early morning confrontation last September.
19 July 2010 (external article)

Related links

Cambridgeshire Against Refugee Detention*

Campaign to Stop Arbitrary Detentions at Yarls Wood*

Campaign to Close Campsfield*

Kent Refugee Action Network

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