Julian Assange can appeal to the European court of human rights if he loses his case at the supreme court. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will discover on Wednesday whether he is to be deported to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault when the supreme court delivers its verdict on his [...]
Rebekah Brooks leaves the high court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry last week. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, will be told on Tuesday if she is to be among the first people to face criminal charges over the phone-hacking scandal. The Crown Prosecution Service will announce whether [...]
Suggested Topics Phone Hacking Police Security Law Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, could be charged with perverting the course of justice after her name was included among 11 suspects in the first files handed to prosecutors by detectives investigating phone hacking. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had received four [...]
Jack Straw: civil action seeks to examine former foreign secretary’s role in Belhaj’s return to Libya. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Jack Straw faces legal action over Libya rendition claims Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj takes legal action against former foreign secretary, alleging complicity in his torture guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 April 2012 18.52 BST Article history A former [...]
Fatima Bouchar, the wife of Abdul Hakim Belhaj. Both were detained in 2004 in Bangkok with the help of MI6 and rendered to Libya. Photograph: Irina Kalashnikova for the Guardian Special report: Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route [...]
Mamie Till Mobley at her son’s funeral on 6 September 1955 in Chicago. She insisted that Emmett’s body be displayed in an open casket. Photograph: AP Mamie Till’s warning still holds true in a racist world On both sides of the Atlantic, black parents are forced to weigh children’s self-esteem against their safety Gary Younge [...]
It will not take long for crude interventions and arrests by police become a daily occurrence in all the so called major democracies. As soon as a small group in a democracy are given privileges and the right to use these privileges against their fellow citizens abuse follows. The first reason for this is that the elite are [...]
Court Cases on Bush Torture and Rendition Policies Shift to Europe Rights groups have aimed at prosecutions in Europe after facing state’s secrets barriers in the US by John Glaser, January 14, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum While the Obama administration has stuck to its promise of immunizing Bush administration officials [...]
Mark Kennedy posed for seven years as a committed environmental activist. Photograph: Philipp Ebeling Mark Kennedy miscarriage of justice inquiry blames prosecutors and police Failure to give undercover policeman’s secret recordings to defence lawyers led to wrongful prosecution of environmentalists The first major inquiry into the Mark Kennedy controversy has ruled that both senior prosecutors and police officers [...]
Lynette White, who was murdered in 1988. Former police officers have been cleared of fabricating evidence leading to the wrongful conviction of the ‘Cardiff Three’. Photograph: South Wales police/PA Largest ever trial of police officers collapses Eight former police officers and two civilians accused in ‘Cardiff Three’ case could not receive fair hearing, judge rules [...]
The British government illegitimately agreed to give special temporary immunity to Tzipi Livni, argue writers [EPA] Changes to UK law didn’t protect Tzipi Livni A London judge ordered a former Israeli foreign minister’s arrest, but the UK is preventing this. Daniel Machover and Raji Sourani Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:15 In December 2009, [...]
MPs summon Met police to explain bid to force Guardian to reveal sources The Metropolitan police has announced a climbdown in its effort to make Guardian reporters reveal sources for articles about phone hacking. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Deputy assistant commissioner to be called before Commons committee that investigated phone hacking reddit this Owen Bowcott, Vikram [...]
Metropolitan police drop action against the Guardian Scotland Yard forced into abrupt climbdown over attempt to make Guardian reporters reveal phone-hacking sources reddit this Owen Bowcott and Vikram Dodd guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 September 2011 21.50 BST Article history Metropolitan police claimed that Amelia Hill could have ‘incited’ a source to break the Official Secrets Act. [...]
UK riots cause 8% rise in jailed children Only 10-15% of juvenile rioters had any sort of gang affiliation, according to Youth Justice Board estimates. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA Youth Justice Board says half of under-18s facing riot charges had no previous contact with criminal justice system reddit this Shiv Malik guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 September 2011 [...]
A riot police officer stands guard in Tottenham during the first night of the unrest. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters The British public strongly supports tougher sentencing for those involved in rioting, a Guardian/ICM poll has found, with about 70% of respondents saying they thought people convicted of riot-related offences should get a tougher than normal sentence. [...]
Riots: Metropolitan police planned to hold all suspects in custody Exclusive: leaked strategy amounts to a blanket policy of mass imprisonments and could lead to legal challenge, say lawyers Share242 reddit this Polly Curtis, Whitehall correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 22 August 2011 21.36 BST Article history People gather to protest at Brixton prison against against the [...]
Jordan Blackshaw, left, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan were each jailed for four years for inciting disorder via social networking sites. Photograph: Cheshire Police/PA Criticism is growing of the sentences imposed on some convicted rioters after two men were jailed for four years for posting messages on Facebook inciting people to create disorder in their home towns. [...]
David Cameron told the recalled House of Commons that anyone involved in the riots should expect to go to prison. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA In a capitalist system property is everything. Any interference with the relationship between the alleged owner and his or her property takes precedence when the political servants of the elite use the rule [...]
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
Lord Macdonald was in charge of the CPS when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW’s royal correspondent took place. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA “Blindingly obvious” evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, when he inspected News of the World emails, the home affairs select committee was told. [...]
Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence CPS opens inquiry after claims prosecutors withheld undercover police officer’s surveillance tapes from defence lawyers Share115 Rob Evans and Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 June 2011 20.44 BST Article history Former police officer Mark Kennedy working undercover with environmental activists. Photograph: Guardian Prosecutors have been accused [...]
Phone hacking: How the Met ‘misled courts, parliament and public’ Metropolitan police accused of misleading the high court over the phone-hacking scandal Share50 Nick Davies and Amelia Hill guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 20.24 BST Article history Brian Paddick, above, is seeking permission for a judicial review of the phone-hacking scandal. Photograph: Brian Cassey / Rex [...]
Ian Tomlinson killing: officer could face manslaughter charge Decision not to prosecute PC Simon Harwood under review after inquest rules that Tomlinson was unlawfully killed Share239 Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 May 2011 18.48 BST Article history Ian Tomlinson’s son, Paul, and his widow, Julia, talk to Paul Lewis Link to this videoThe police officer who attacked Ian [...]
In an interesting move those convicted over some protests in the UK have been invited to appeal by the DPP. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site DPP urges convicted power station protesters to appeal Keir Starmer says 20 people found guilty of trespass should take case back to court over involvement of undercover police officer [...]
Justice is impossible if we can’t trust the police to tell the truth. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 12th April 2011. “From the information I had, that is what I believed happened to me.”(1) So Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two [...]
