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In Amenas: The need for an international enquiry

Jeremy Keenan writes on the investigation into the terrorist attack on the Tigantourine gas plant near In Amenas in the Algerian Sahara which took place in January 2013.

A street in Rangoon/Yangon's Muslim quarter.

Islamophobia: Myanmar’s Racist Fault-line

ISCI director Professor Penny Green: Myanmar’s Rohingya suffer brutal state crime because of deeply entrenched and unchecked Islamophobia.

Source: www.giornalettismo.com. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, (LaPresse/AP/Gregorio Borgia).

Italian Election 2013: A Reaction to Wealthy and Corrupt Political Elites

Following Italy's recent election ISCI researcher, Fabiana Di Lorenzo, discusses alleged corruption and injustice haunting Italian politics.

Richard Falk

Richard Falk joins ISCI as an Honorary Fellow

Mali

A New Phase in the War on Terror?

A new, full-length report for ISCI by Jeremy Keenan on events in Algeria and Mali

In Amenas
A street in Rangoon/Yangon's Muslim quarter.
Source: www.giornalettismo.com. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, (LaPresse/AP/Gregorio Borgia).
Richard Falk
Mali

About State Crime

The most serious crimes in the modern world, on any reasonable definition, are acts that are largely committed, instigated or condoned by governments and their officials: for example, genocide, war crimes, torture and corruption. However, state crime is under-acknowledged by popular and academic authors. Calling these activities ‘crimes’ should be uncontroversial as they violate international and/or national criminal law… Read more »

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16 May 2013

INJUSTICE: The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody.

The film, ‘Injustice’, directed by Ken Fero & Tariq Mehmood (Migrant Media) and produced in 2001, can be viewed in its entirety here. In 1969 David Oluwale became the first black person to die in police custody in Britain. Many others have died since then. None of the police officers involved have been convicted of these... Read more »
15 May 2013

In Amenas: the need for an international enquiry

In Amenas
Three people (Americans) were killed and 264 injured by the two terrorist bombs planted near the finish of the Boston marathon on 15th April, 2013. Just under three months earlier, some 80 people died in the terrorist attack on the Tigantourine gas plant near In Amenas in the Algerian Sahara. Some 39 (possibly more) ex-patriot... Read more »
09 May 2013

State intelligence agencies and the far Right: A review of developments in Germany, Hungary and Austria

Institute of Race Relations Press Release dated 4 April 2013: Can European security services and law enforcement agencies be entrusted with policing the far Right? (Briefing paper No. 6) Far-right and neo-Nazi violence – on the increase across Europe – is the subject of ongoing research by the Institute of Race Relations which releases today... Read more »