Slaves on our streets: beatings, torture and enforced labour – three shocking convictions for modern slavery in the UK
One was called the ’worst case of modern-day slavery ever uncovered in Britain’
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/slaves-on-our-streets-modern-slavery-convictions-a7942606.html
#esclavage_moderne #UK #Angleterre #travail_domestique #justice #maoïsme
Six people arrested under modern slavery laws after raids in Derby
Police suspect ten Latvian men were unable to access bank accounts set up in their name
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/slavery-arrests-derby-police-raids-a7943661.html
Muslim man who was attacked with acid wants to know why it’s not labelled a terror attack
#Jameel_Muhktar and his cousin #Resham_Khan were attacked on her 21st birthday
Racist incidents feared to be linked to Brexit result
Suspected racist graffiti at Polish cultural centre in London among incidents thought to be fuelled by vote to leave the EU
▻http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/26/racist-incidents-feared-to-be-linked-to-brexit-result-reported-in-engla
#racisme #xénophobie #graffitis #UK #Angleterre #graffitis #migrants_polonais
Far-right demonstrators take to streets demanding repatriation of immigrants in wake of Brexit
A tense stand-off took place in #Newcastle city centre as groups defending refugees gathered to oppose the demo arranged by the English Defence League
’My family doesn’t feel safe here any more’: eastern Europeans on Brexit
Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, people have been reporting incidents of racism believed to have been fuelled by the referendum result.
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/family-safe-eastern-europeans-brexit-britain-eu-referendum?CMP=Share_An
#Brexit
EU referendum: Immigrants told to ’leave UK now’ after ’divisive and xenophobic’ Brexit campaign, Warsi says
Former Tory chairwoman switched from backing Leave to Remain over concerns ’lies and hate’ were being spread by pro-Brexit politicians
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eu-referendum-brexit-immigration-immigrants-campaign-latest-baroness-
Brexit: in salita l’hate speech, il web si auto-organizza per contrastarlo
Dopo il voto espresso al referendum sull’Unione europea in Regno Unito aumentano i discorsi d’odio, ma il web risponde. Giovanni Ziccardi: “Oggi non si può combattere l’odio senza tecnologia”
▻http://www.cartadiroma.org/editoriale/brexit-e-hate-speech-i-social-media-come-strumento-per-combattere-lodio
El ‘Brexit’ desata la rabia racista
El país vive una repentina cadena de escenas xenófobas, incluso con cartas amenazantes en los buzones
▻http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/06/27/actualidad/1467050608_961870.html
UK: Act to Curb Xenophobic Attacks After Referendum
The authorities should take strong action to curb xenophobic attacks and abuse in the United Kingdom in the wake of June 23, 2016 European Union referendum, Human Rights Watch said today.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/27/uk-act-curb-xenophobic-attacks-after-referendum
Brexit and human rights: winter is coming
Given the toxic politics of Farage, Johnson, Le Pen and Trump, will human rights be enough to resist right-wing nationalism in the wake of Brexit?
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/stephen-hopgood/brexit-and-human-rights-winter-is-coming
Island retreat: on hate, violence and the murder of #Jo_Cox
Racists have been emboldened and hatred has been normalised.
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/aaron-winter/island-retreat-on-hate-violence-and-murder-of-jo-cox
Police log fivefold rise in race-hate complaints since Brexit result
National Police Chiefs Council reports increase in incidents filed to crime website as forces tackle nationwide spate of attacks
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/police-report-fivefold-increase-race-hate-crimes-since-brexit-result?CM
Building an anti-fascist culture post-Brexit
A vast amount has already been said about ‘Brexit’ and the general climate of nationalism and xenophobia in which the vote took place. We want to concentrate on where we can go from here. Between rising fascism on the one hand, and despair on the other, we think it’s essential we build a culture of anti-fascism based on solidarity and autonomy. Solidarity here means taking action to support each other against those who seek to impose their authoritarian and racist ideal of a uniform society. Autonomy means unlearning our habit of looking to leaders for solutions, and taking the initiative to organise for ourselves.
Why Amnesty Has Launched an Emergency Campaign on Racism
Of course, bigotry existed before this referendum, but undeniably the campaign was marked by divisive, toxic rhetoric as well as a failure from political leaders to condemn it and it seems clear that we are now reaping the referendum rhetoric whirlwind.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kate-allen/amnesty-racism-after-brexit_b_10773972.html
Plus sur la #campagne:
Ask your local council to stand against hate
Violence. Vandalism. Hate speech. Racist slogans on t-shirts. In the last few days, reports of hate crimes in the UK have increased. Fuelled by years of hostile rhetoric, coupled with divisive campaigns, we are now seeing racism and xenophobia on the rise on our streets and in our communities.
Asians targeted as racist attacks rise after EU vote
POLICE officers have been put on alert following the dramatic rise in race-related hate crime, which has shot up 57 per cent following Britain’s decision to leave the EU.
▻https://www.easterneye.eu/news/detail/asians-targetted-as-racist-attacks-rise-after-eu-vote
My 350 on BREXIT: Who is going to clean up the mess of the EU referendum?
The politics of escapism won the day; yet the Leave campaign leaders are escaping from taking responsibility for the xenophobia and social divisions in the country.
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/francesca-es-montemaggi/my-350-on-brexit-who-is-going-to-clean-up-mess-of-eu-referendum
After ‘Brexit’ Vote, Immigrants Feel a Town Turn Against Them
BOSTON, England — A few days after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Monika Baginski was in a supermarket, chatting with a friend on the phone in her native Polish, when a man followed her down the aisle. “You foreigner,” Ms. Baginski recalled him saying. “You’ll be out soon.”
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/world/europe/brexit-immigrants-great-britain-eu.html?smid=tw-share
Post-Brexit racism
Below we present an overview of racially motivated attacks and other incidents of harassment that have taken place since the Brexit result, which indicate the types of attacks taking place across the UK. But of course, this account is in no way exhaustive.
▻http://www.irr.org.uk/news/post-brexit-racism/?platform=hootsuite
A website that tracks racist and xenophobic harassment in public spaces has been launched. iStreetwatch says that incidents of racist and anti-migrant abuse are becoming ever more public and ever more prolific. The site encourgages people who have witnessed or experienced racist or xenophobic harassment to submit their experiences here.
True scale of London immigration raids revealed
Journalist Philip Kleinfeld has uncovered an 80% rise in the number of immigration raids in London over the last five years. Data released to Kelinfeld by the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act breaks down raids in the capital by individual postcodes. It shows a total of 19,853 raids — almost 11 a day — from 2010 to 2015.
▻http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/files/img/Cmc7LUWXYAAU9Gb.jpglarge-800x600.jpeg
▻http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/news/2016/true-scale-london-immigration-raids-revealed
Post-referendum racism and the importance of social activism
A new report by social media activists on the spike of hate crimes immediately after the referendum on EU membership should prove uncomfortable reading for the Home Office.
Britain’s Brexit Hate Crime Problem
This weekend a silent march and vigil was held in the town of Harlow, Essex to commemorate Arkadiusz Jozwik. The 40-year-old Polish man, who had lived in the UK for four years, was attacked with a friend a week earlier in the town and died of head injuries. Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/09/05/britains-brexit-hate-crime-problem
Interview about “racist abuse” interrupted by racist abuse
As Polish police officers begin patrolling #Harlow tomorrow after a Polish man was killed there last month, in police are investigating yet another racially-aggravated assault against a Polish man.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzWfdgnK-M
#racisme #xénophobie #hate_crime #attaque_raciste #polonais #Brexit #UK #Angleterre
UK student stabbed in neck for speaking Polish describes brutal post-Brexit assault in #Telford
21-year-old Bartosz Milewski fears going out after dark following brutal attack
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-student-stabbed-in-neck-for-speaking-polish-brutal-post-brexit-ass
Hate crimes in UK surge 41% after Brexit vote
Reported offences more than two-fifths higher in July than same time last year
▻https://www.ft.com/content/9b2ec1a6-912c-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78
Hate crimes soared by 41% after Brexit vote, official figures reveal
Home Office figures appear to correlate with previous reports of a rise in post-Brexit hate crime
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brexit-hate-crimes-racism-eu-referendum-vote-attacks-increase-police-
How foreigners became the convenient scapegoat of the referendum campaign
The Brexit campaign was never really about the EU or even immigration. It was about foreigners. Foreigners became a scapegoat for all the things that are not working properly – including in the NHS and in schools. But the government could not have confronted this use of xenophobia, writes Rodney Barker. Doing so would be to admit that these failures were not because of immigration but because of its own policies.
▻http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/how-foreigners-became-the-convenient-scapegoat-of-the-referendum-campai
White supremacist found guilty of assassination of UK Remain MP
A white rights terrorist was found guilty of the murder of British MP Jo Cox on Wednesday (23 November), who was assassinated in the run-up to the Brexit referendum in June.
▻http://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/white-supremacist-found-guilty-of-assassination-of-uk-remain-mp
Royaume-Uni. Polémique autour du traitement médiatique du meurtre de Jo Cox
Thomas Mair, l’homme qui a tué en juin la députée Jo Cox, a été condamné à la prison à perpétuité. La façon dont les #médias traitent cette information a aussitôt ranimé la polémique sur leur responsabilité dans l’accentuation des tensions sociales.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/royaume-uni-polemique-autour-du-traitement-med
Racial violence and the Brexit state
Through a detailed examination of cases on the IRR’s unique database it establishes a link between the language and behaviour of perpetrators of such violence, the rhetoric and policy pronouncements of politicians over recent years and the stigmatising frameworks of the media.
Pour télécharger le rapport:
▻http://www.irr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Racial-violence-and-the-Brexit-state-final.pdf
The seeds of post-Brexit racial violence lie in government policy
Racist attacks are condemned by politicians who stop short of examining their complicity. New research suggests policy ignites hatred.
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/shinealight/jenny-bourne/seeds-of-post-brexit-racial-violence-lie-in-government-policy?platfor
Racism, Crisis, Brexit
This article offers a conjunctural analysis of the financial and political crisis within which Brexit occurred with a specific attentiveness to race and racism. Brexit and its aftermath have been overdetermined by racism, including racist violence. We suggest that the Leave campaign secured its victory by bringing together two contradictory but inter-locking visions. The first comprises an imperial longing to restore Britain’s place in the world as primus inter pares that occludes any coming to terms with the corrosive legacies of colonial conquest and racist subjugation. The second takes the form of an insular, Powellite narrative of island retreat from a “globalizing” world, one that is no longer recognizably “British”. Further, the article argues that an invisible driver of the Brexit vote and its racist aftermath has been a politicization of Englishness. We conclude by outlining some resources of hope that could potentially help to negotiate the current emergency.
▻https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1361544
TalkTalk suffers DDoS, data breach, and ransom demand
On October 22, 2015, UK Telecom group TalkTalk disclosed it had experienced a DDoS attack on its websites. This was probably to draw attention away from the true attack, during which personal and banking details of up to 4 million customers is thought to have been accessed. Former customers may also be affected and it was not known whether the information seized by the hackers was encrypted or not.
The stolen, unencrypted data[1] includes:
• Names and addresses
• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Telephone numbers
• TalkTalk account information
• Credit card and bank details
TalkTalk stated they had received a ransom demand from a group claiming to be responsible. The data would be made public unless the ransom is paid.
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/talktalk-cyber-attack-company-receives-ransom-demand-from-hackers-a67
A message was posted online to the Pastebin website claiming the attack was the work of a Russian-based team of Islamic extremists.
And while experts have met the unverified claim of responsibility with scepticism, the company has now said it has been contacted directly by alleged hackers.
Brain Krebs claims the ransom amounts to 122.000 EUR in bitcoins
▻https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/talktalk-hackers-demanded-80k-in-bitcoin
Some customers complained that they were targeted by criminals before TalkTalk disclosed the cyberattack and that TalkTalk has covered up both the scale and duration of this attack
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11952192/TalkTalk-faces-new-questions-over-cyber-attack.html
On 24 October TalkTalk issued a statement saying that a “materially lower” amount of customers’ financial information was stolen than was first thought, and that the stolen data was not sufficient for money to be taken from bank accounts.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/24/talktalk-attack-government-urged-to-do-more-on-cybercrime
[1]
▻http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/25/talktalk_boss_no_legal_obligation_to_encrypt_customer_bank_details
TalkTalk stated the lost data had not been encrypted, but they were not legally required to encrypt it.
Justice for sale: Big companies could soon escape prosecution for corporate #corruption - by paying their way out
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/justice-for-sale-big-companies-could-soon-escape-prosecution-for-corp
A new era of US-style plea deals for corporate corruption moved has moved nearer after it emerged that prosecutors had begun private negotiations that could allow a small British exporter to escape prosecution for alleged bribery.
#Twitter and #Facebook ’allowing #Islamophobia to flourish’ as anti-Muslim comments proliferate
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/twitter-and-facebookallowing-islamophobia-to-flourish-as-antimuslim-c
Bomber may have blown himself up ’because he forgot clocks changed’
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/irish-bomber-may-have-blown-himself-up-because-he-forgot-about-clocks
#gorafi_encore_plagié
UK banks in row over Yulia Tymoshenko ’millions’
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-uk-banks-in-row-over-yulia-tymoshenko-millions-9177693.html
#oligarque mais notre oligarque.
Prominent UK banks are at the centre of a dispute over allegations that numerous foreign accounts were set up in the name of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her family. A leaked report, seen by The Independent, claims that 85 bank accounts containing millions of pounds were linked to Ms Tymoshenko and relatives.
Grande-Bretagne : scandale dans une prison gérée par #Sodexo
▻http://www.multinationales.org/Grande-Bretagne-scandale-dans-une
Une prisonnière anglaise accuse l’établissement où elle est incarcérée - une prison privée gérée par le groupe français Sodexo - de l’avoir laissée trois jours sans soin suite à une fausse couche, et de l’avoir obligée à nettoyer son propre sang. Elle était emprisonnée pour avoir volé pour 14 livres (16,50 euros) de nourriture dans un supermarché. Une première version de cet article a été publiée par Basta !. Le jour de son incarcération, fin novembre, une Anglaise a été victime d’une fausse couche. Selon son (...)
/ #Royaume-Uni, #droits_humains, #privatisation, Sodexo, #services_publics
►http://www.bastamag.net/Dans-une-prison-privatisee-une
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woman-who-miscarried-in-private-prison-made-to-clean-up-after-herself
►http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/government-hands-over-management-hmp-6361207
►http://uk.sodexo.com/uken/services/on-site/justice-services/prisons.aspx
►http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/james-davies/uk-justice-workers-walk-out-in-protest-against-privatisation
Grande-Bretagne : scandale dans une prison gérée par #Sodexo
▻http://www.multinationales.org/article224.html
Une prisonnière anglaise accuse l’établissement où elle est incarcérée - une prison privée gérée par le groupe français Sodexo - de l’avoir laissée trois jours sans soin suite à une fausse couche, et de l’avoir obligée à nettoyer son propre sang. Elle était emprisonnée pour avoir volé pour 14 livres (16,50 euros) de nourriture dans un supermarché. Une première version de cet article a été publiée par Basta !. Le jour de son incarcération, fin novembre, une Anglaise a été victime d’une fausse couche. Selon son (...)
/ #Royaume-Uni, #droits_humains, #privatisation, Sodexo, #services_publics
►http://www.bastamag.net/Dans-une-prison-privatisee-une
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woman-who-miscarried-in-private-prison-made-to-clean-up-after-herself
►http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/government-hands-over-management-hmp-6361207
►http://uk.sodexo.com/uken/services/on-site/justice-services/prisons.aspx
►http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/james-davies/uk-justice-workers-walk-out-in-protest-against-privatisation
►http://uk.sodexo.com/uken/services/on-site/justice-services/prisons.aspx
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Exclusive: Police under fire over arbitrary terror arrests at UK borders
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-police-under-fire-over-arbitrary-terror-arrests-at-uk-borde
Scotland Yard faces legal action over its use of wide-ranging terrorism laws to question people at airports, after refusing to hand over the results of investigations into the alleged misuse of these powers by its officers.
“Banks and pharmaceutical companies are on a secret list of blue-chip firms that hired private investigators who break the law” - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-bigger-than-phone-hacking--soca-sat-on-bluechip-dirty-trick
Banks and pharmaceutical companies are on a secret list of blue-chip firms that hired private investigators who break the law, The Independent has learned.
(...)
Information on the banks and pharmaceutical companies is contained in an explosive list of corrupt PIs’ clients handed to a parliamentary committee by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca). The list of 101 clients also includes some wealthy individuals.
Excellente illustration du caractère profondément inégalitaire et libéral de la théorie de la neutralité de la technologie, toujours plus efficacement utilisée par les puissants que les exploités.
Reste à prendre conscience du fait que l’exploitation se nourrit du progrès technique plutôt que de l’idéaliser.
Visiblement, le revers subi à Brighton il y a mois (▻http://seenthis.net/messages/133880), contre les antifa, ne leur pas suffi aux crânes rasés.
« Woolwich attacks: BNP and anti-fascists in street clashes »
Far-right groups march across UK in wake of Woolwich killing, while police in London arrest 58 during angry scenes
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woolwich-attacks-bnp-and-antifascists-in-street-clashes-8640798.html
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8640772.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/mick+griffin.jpg
At least one BNP member was injured in fighting between the two groups, who were involved in a lengthy stand-off after Whitehall was choked by protesters determined to prevent BNP leader Nick Griffin and his supporters from carrying out their planned march to the Cenotaph.
Police officers ordered the group of around 300 protesters, linked to Unite Against Fascism (UAF), to move away and continue their protest further up the street but, after their demands were refused, officers moved in to make arrests.
Despite most of the arrests being from among their ranks, UAF said it was pleased to have prevented the BNP’s march and called it a “great victory”. A large group of UAF supporters turned up ahead of the planned start of the BNP’s demonstration yesterday afternoon to confront the far-right party.
Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within - British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-secret-war-on-enemy-within--british-terror-suspects-quietly
The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks.
Sex for tuition fees anyone? Students being offered up to £15,000 a year to cover cost of university, in exchange for having sex with strangers - Crime - UK - The Independent
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-for-tuition-fees-anyone-students-being-offered-up-to-15000-a-year
The website SponsorAScholar.co.uk claims to have arranged for 1,400 women aged between 17 and 24 to be funded through their studies by wealthy businessmen seeking “discreet adventures”.
Man behind ‘sex for tuition fees’ website is named - students were offered up to £15,000 a year to cover cost of university - Crime - UK - The Independent
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-behind-sex-for-tuition-fees-website-is-named--students-were-offer
The man uncovered as running a “sex for tuition fees” website has been named after being secretly filmed.
...
An undercover reporter recorded a meeting with the man who told her that sponsorship was dependent on a “high level of sexual intimacy” with men in two-hour sessions in hotel rooms up to four times a term.
C’est le genre de statistique qui autorise les occidentaux à donner des leçons au reste du monde sur leur façon de traiter les femmes :
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ios-investigation-britains-record-on-rape-shows-shocking-new-failures
As many as 400,000 women are sexually assaulted and 80,000 women raped each year, according to the authoritative British Crime Survey, yet only 11 per cent of victims report crimes to the police.
Unreported rapes: the silent shame
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/unreported-rapes-the-silent-shame-7561636.html
One in 10 women has been raped, and more than a third subjected to sexual assault, according to a major survey, which also highlights just how frightened women are of not being believed. More than 80 per cent of the 1,600 respondents said they did not report their assault to the police, while 29 per cent said they told nobody – not even a friend or family member – of their ordeal.
Negative social attitudes to rape and sexual assault victims play a big part in the reluctance of women to come forward, the survey by Mumsnet suggests. Nearly three-quarters (70 per cent) of respondents feel the media is unsympathetic to women who report rape, while more than half say the same is true of the legal system and society in general.
944 police officers ’have criminal record’ - Crime - UK - The Independent
More than 900 serving police officers and community support officers have a criminal record, official figures show.
Forces across England and Wales employ policemen and women with convictions including burglary, causing death by careless driving, robbery, supplying drugs, domestic violence, forgery and perverting the course of justice.
Those with criminal records include senior officers, among them two detective chief inspectors and one chief inspector working for the Metropolitan Police.
At least 944 currently serving officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) have a conviction, according to figures released by 33 of the 43 forces in England and Wales in response to Freedom of Information requests.
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/944-police-officers-have-criminal-record-6284098.html
Police in City see occupiers as ’terror’ risk - Crime - UK - The Independent
The City of London Police force was facing criticism last night after including the Occupy London demonstration in a letter warning businesses about potential terrorist threats.
The letter, a “Terrorism/Extremism Update”, lists al-Qa’ida, the Colombian dissidents Farc, and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground. It also lists Occupy London under the heading “Domestic”.
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A police source said the letter was authentic but was poorly worded and never meant to imply demonstrators posed a terrorist threat.
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-in-city-see-occupiers-as-terror-risk-6272434.html
Mother of man arrested in riots is served with eviction notice - Crime, UK - The Independent
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mother-of-man-arrested-in-riots-is-served-with-eviction-notice-233685
The mother of a man alleged to have been involved in the riots in London has become the first person in the country to be served with an eviction notice in relation to the violence.
Wandsworth Council announced yesterday that it was evicting one of its tenants, saying it was part of a drive to take “tough action against tenants or members of their households who were directly involved in the disturbances”.