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‘Keir Starmer’s Weaponisation of Foreign National Crime Statistics Risks Stoking Violence and Empowering the Far Right’
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer’s racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
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Ministry of Justice Slammed for Work Environment That Was ‘Intimidating, Hostile, Degrading and Humiliating’
The MoJ has been found guilty of racial discrimination, harassment, and constructive unfair dismissal, in a landmark case first exposed by Byline Times
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Will a Police Officer Sacked and Jailed for a Violent Assault Finally Be Able to Clear His Name?
After years of inaction, the Criminal Case Review Commission has finally referred the case of PC Danny Major to the Court of Appeal
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How The Media Is ‘Economically Exploiting’ Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse
Five things you probably didn’t know about the crime better known as ‘revenge porn’
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From Jimmy Lai to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Families of Brits Detained Abroad Demand New Strategy Over ‘Hostage Diplomacy’
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard tells Byline Times that the UK’s approach is leaving vulnerable Britons ‘left behind’
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‘How Our Tough-On-Crime Media Is Harming Unborn Babies’
The media is often more interested in what led to mothers being jailed than in the safety of the babies they’re forced to have behind bars, argues Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
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Domestic Abuse Charity Compares Council to ‘Abuse Perpetrator After Funding Slashed With Little Warning’
Charity’s claims come as councils across the UK cut budgets for VAMG services
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Prisons Overcrowding Crisis to Force Keir Starmer to Release Thousands More Prisoners Early
The crisis followed the last Conservative Government’s failure to fulfil its promise to build up to 20,000 more prisons places before leaving office
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Police Force Faces Backlash Over Facial Recognition Technology Linked to Surveillance in Gaza
Officers have been using technology used by Israel during its operations in Gaza and the West Bank
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‘If We Let Domestic Abusers Skip Rehabilitation Courses Then Lives Will Continue to Be Lost’
Domestic violence charity Refuge’s CEO Abigail Ampofo says that the Government’s decision to end rehabilitation courses for some offenders is ‘deeply troubling’
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FGM: ‘How Can We Achieve Zero Tolerance With Zero Coverage?’
An estimated 230 million girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news
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‘My Name Is Levi Davis and My Life Is in Danger’ – Reopening the Case of the Rugby Star Who Disappeared
Part One of a five part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem
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The Axel Rudakubana Southport Murder ‘Cover Up’ Conspiracy Theories Debunked
Despite what you may have read in parts of the media, this case showed our criminal justice system is as objective and robust as ever, argues lawyer Gareth Roberts
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Brit National’s 30-Year Fight for Justice Amid Claims US Extradition Deal Was ‘Violated’ and Evidence Was ‘Fabricated’
Azhar Lal was extradited in 1991 under an agreement meant to prevent him from having his sentence increased to life without parole, which he claims, was never honoured
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‘Elon Musk’s Venal ‘Rape Genocide’ Claims About Keir Starmer and Grooming Gangs Are Absurd’
The truth is Starmer made profound improvements to tackling crimes against women and girls while Director of Public Prosecutions, reveals a veteran barrister
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‘The Pelicot Rape Trial Shows How Pornography is Contributing Towards an Epidemic of Sexual Violence Against Women’
The law must be changed to tackle the impact of easily available sexually violent imagery, says Criminal Barrister Gareth Roberts
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Sex Workers Fear ‘Disastrous’ Labour Government Plan ‘That Would Put Us Much More at Risk of Violence and Arrest’
Sex workers in the UK speak out after Belgium grants people in the industry employment rights in historic first
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‘Litany of Failures’ Exposed by Damning Report Revealing Huge Scale of Conservative Prisons Crisis Inherited by Keir Starmer
Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
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How the Media ‘Justified’ the Shooting of Chris Kaba and then ‘Conducted a Merciless Autopsy’ on his Life
The headlines about Chris Kaba tell us more about the society and media in this country than his killing
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Indifference for the Disabled: A Traumatising Night Affecting My Every Day
In her monthly column, Penny Pepper describes the aftermath of a terrifying break-in, which she fears may have been a disability hate crime
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Court Martial Data Exposes Dark Secrets of the Ministry of Defence and a ‘Severe Culture Problem it Doesn’t Know how to Deal With’
Byline Times investigation finds that 40% of all sexual offences committed by Royal Air Force personnel between 2014 and 2024 involved children
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‘Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal’
The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as “noise”. It is anything but
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Activists to Launch Fresh Wave of Protests Against ‘Draconian’ Anti-Protest Laws as Leading Actress Speaks Out
Campaigners plan civil disobedience outside courts, demanding meeting with Attorney General over harsh sentencing of peaceful protesters
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‘Report Showing Police Officers Accused of Domestic Abuse Have Been Promoted Shows Little has Changed Since Sarah Everard Murder’
The Centre for Women’s Justice has released a damning report based on the testimony of more than 200 women who allege attacks by their police officer partners
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No Lessons Learned: Peers Condemn Culture of Brushing Damning Inquiry Findings Under the Carpet
“‘Lessons learned’ is an entirely vacuous phrase if lessons aren’t being learned” warns new report after a series of deadly warnings were ignored
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‘For Too Long, Men Have Been Invisible in a Media Conversation Focusing on “Violence Against Women”, Not “Male Violence”
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how journalism is still failing to challenge the structural forces of patriarchy and misogyny
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Only a Tiny Fraction of Child Abuse Allegations Made by Victims are Leading to Charges
Newly-released figures expose the huge hurdles that victims and their families face in order to get justice
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Ministry of Justice Accused of Hiding Scale of Racism in British Prisons
The Government is refusing to reveal how many complaints have been made by inmates and guards
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Top Lawyer on Your Right to Protest, Legal Aid, Mouldy Housing and Fighting Racism
Christian Weaver represented the family of Awaab Ishak who died from a condition caused by black mould in his family’s social housing flat
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70% of Guilty Sex Crime Verdicts in England and Wales Involve Child Abuse
Out of the 10,641 convictions for sexual offence cases last year, at least 7,500 were related to the abuse of children under the age of 18 – 1,635 involved victims who were under 13
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‘Prison Doesn’t Work – it Won’t for Those Jailed for the Riots Either’
Keir Starmer was applauded for appointing a prisons minister who believes only a ‘third of inmates should actually be in jail’. Where was this mantra when the PM declared rioters should feel ‘the full force of the law’?
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Survivor of Alleged Rape to Sue Police Claiming ‘Failure to Properly Investigate Breached Human Rights’
Jan Cruickshank alleged that a male workmate sexually harassed her in person and via text messages for three years before raping her in spring 2015.
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Met Police Strip Search Detainees 80% More Than Other Forces – as Report Details Controversial Tactic is Still Being Misused
A report by the Children’s Commissioner found that kids as young as eight have been strip-searched every 14 hours under police stop and search powers
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UK Riots: How the Right-Wing Press Fought to Stop Laws to Combat Online Disinformation
The story of how the Conservatives exempted their media supporters from laws against spreading dangerously false information online
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‘I Predict A Riot: The Manufacturing of Islamophobic and Anti-Migrant Hate On Our Streets’
We must be honest about the fact that it is not only fringe rabble-rousers who have engaged in this damaging rhetoric, writes Adeeb Ayton
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‘Torture Survivors Terrified to go out as Far-Right Riots Sweep Britain’
The Government must urgently put in place greater security measures for those targeted by far-right hate
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Prison Cells ‘Waiting’ for Far-Right Rioters Despite Major Overcrowding Problem at Most UK Jails
The Justice Minister has said the Government will ‘make sure’ that anyone jailed over the riots has a ‘prison place waiting for them’
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Huw Edwards Announcing Queen’s Death ‘Will Never Be Broadcast Again’
The decision not to syndicate the most famous moments of news broadcasting in recent years would likely cost the BBC millions of pounds in royalties, a source told Byline Times
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Southport Violence: ‘We All Need To Consider Our Role in the Wild West of Social Media Hypercriminality’
Key elements of misinformation about the Southport killings originated in a social media post by ‘Channel 3 News’
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Outspoken Former Footballer Joey Barton ‘Cancelled’ From ‘Free Speech’ Event After Legal Issues
The former footballer has been charged with malicious communications over tweets he sent about ex-England player, Eni Aluko.
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Chris Packham Slams ‘Sickening’ Media and Met Police Over Just Stop Oil Case – And Urges Government to Repeal Law Before Protests ‘Escalate’
‘The lack of perspective that’s generated by the mainstream press and the lack of reasonable accounting for mainstream news media this week has been simply appalling’
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‘The Miscarriage of Justice Watchdog Urgently Needs to Fight for Its Independence and Prioritise Getting Innocent People Out of Prison’
As Andrew Malkinson’s case shows, the Criminal Cases Review Commission has become an organisation obsessed with hitting key performance indicators – mainly relating to deadlines and ‘closing’ files, writes Jon Robins
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Just Stop Oil Protestors Receive Harshest Jail Terms Yet in Case that ‘May Violate Human Rights Law’
The trial and sentencing of the protesters has been described as a “low point in British justice” and an “assault on free speech”
