84 year old immigration detainee was handcuffed and chained as he lay dying in hospital. Dvorzak Inquest, Day 6.
The British government's programme to counter violent extremism hands religious fundamentalists the gift of a narrative of victimhood, narrowing the political space for secular feminists and others to challenge fundamentalism.
Today former detainees and their supporters gather to protest at the former prison in South Lanarkshire.
Coroner: “But Mr Dvorzak had chest pains. Why was he still handcuffed?”Security company employee: “I can’t justify a comment on that.”West London Coroner’s Court, 23 October 2015.
The for-profit escort company Tascor told a worried medic that a frail old man’s removal from Britain “could not be aborted unless there was resistance”, an inquest jury hears.
Ideas, just like viruses or organisms, do not spontaneously generate, even if certain historical circumstances make the rise and spread of a given idea more likely.
Manager of a UK for-profit detention centre tells inquest jury: “There was no room for discretion. Challenging it would have slowed him going to hospital.”
Detention centre healthcare, by commercial contrator Primecare, was “extremely basic” and unsafe, court hears.
Those who think that Jeremy Corbyn could turn the Labour party into a British Syriza should think again.
Days before his death, a frail old Canadian man slept on chairs in a Gatwick Airport holding room, a court heard yesterday.
Story exposing UK government’s failures to protect victims of trafficking judged “best news piece” on modern slavery.
Accountability practices, intended to increase trust in NGOs, can lead to a narrow focus on projects at the expense of engaging in wider campaigning for social transformation.
