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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 »

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 »

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 »

Myanmar’s Rohingya suffer brutal state crime because of deeply entrenched and unchecked Islamophobia Abu Tahay is a small passionate man who has something important to say. He has said it to David Cameron, to William Hague, to Hugo Swire and now here in the single air-conditioned room of a small local grass roots organisation (optimistically... Read more »

In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror. Now, in The Dying Sahara, he reveals how the designation of the region as a ‘Terror Zone’ has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people.... Read more »

ISCI director Professor Penny Green will be speaking at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies conference, ‘How Corrupt is Britain?, on 10 May 2013. The event will take place from 9.30am to 5pm at the University of Liverpool. `How Corrupt is Britain?’ is a one day conference which will bring together campaigners, academics, key public... Read more »

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of ISCI. Philip Rizk* “All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.” - C. Wright Mills Violence is related to notions of justice. In Egypt there are two forms of justice that we have been fighting... Read more »

Internment camps, the mortaring of children, aerial bombardments, assassinations, rape, and the denial of humanitarian aid — these are just some of the criminal state practices endured by civilians during Papua New Guinea’s decade-long civil war on the island of Bougainville (1988-1998). No senior official from Australia or PNG has been formally censured, let alone... Read more »

Photo credit: Flickr/U.S. Army. Iraqi Special Operation Forces arresting a “suspect” in a training operation in 2009. Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq and that country’s descent into anarchy, the United States began assisting, training, and equipping the Iraqi police. In doing so, it was following a grand — and deeply... Read more »

The Italian election of 26th February seems to have left the country in complete chaos. Bersani, leader of the centre-left wing and its coalition, won the lower house winning 29.5% of votes. But Bersani failed in securing the majority of votes in the Senate, where Berlusconi and his coalition secured 29.6% of the vote and the... Read more »

Blog by Rebecca Tinsley: The human rights group, Waging Peace, has found that Sudanese dissidents in the UK are being spied on by Sudanese embassy officials. When some dissidents returned to Sudan they were tortured by the security services, in one case for three years. Waging Peace has published a report documenting cases of individuals... Read more »

We are delighted to announce the arrival of Professor Richard Falk as an Honorary Fellow at The International State Crime Initiative. Richard Falk is professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University, and United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories. He is the author of many books, including The Six Legal Dimensions of the Vietnam War (1968)... Read more »

The obituaries of major political figures are a defining moment where double standards are displayed in unashamed glory. Those who are our friend, who supported our governments and economic interests, are benevolent visionaries, albeit with minor flaws; those who shunned the dictates of Western governments are pariahs, divisive figures, demagogues and dictators. No guesses which... Read more »

Please click here to download a full version of the report, Crimes in northern Burma: Results from a fact-finding mission to Kachin State November 2011, produced by Partners Relief & Development. Executive Summary On 9 June 2011, civil war broke out in northern Burma between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), ending a... Read more »

A report launched by the Lawyer Network (Myanmar) and Justice Trust (USA) on 14 February 2013 follows recent controversy surrounding the Letpadaung copper mine project. The project is a joint-venture between the military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited and China’s Wanbao Mining company. In the early hours 29 November 2012 police launched a violent crackdown on... Read more »