MPs launch inquiry into online abuse of disabled people, following Katie Price petition
Disability hate crime campaigners are to give evidence to MPs next month as part of…
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Murdered disabled refugee ‘was repeatedly failed by council and police’
A disabled refugee who was murdered after years of racist harassment and abuse was repeatedly…
Major law reform would help close ‘huge justice gap’ on disability hate crime
Academics have called for a new hate crime act and other key legal reforms to…
Head of judiciary said Brexit delays will rule out vital hate crime law change
The head of the judiciary has blamed the parliamentary logjam caused by Brexit for preventing…
Police and council face questions over second murder of disabled refugee
Public bodies in Bristol are facing allegations of institutional disablism and racism, after the second…
Kamil Ahmad: Discrimination led to murder of disabled refugee, say friends
Friends of a disabled Kurdish asylum-seeker have spoken of the institutionalised discrimination that they believe…
Second year of huge rises in disability hate crime, but causes still unclear
The number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police rose by more than 50…
Modern slavery sentencing again exposes hate crime failings
The failure of the criminal justice system to recognise and punish disability hate crime has…
CPS hate crime statement wins support
Disabled campaigners say they are encouraged by a new public statement from the Crown Prosecution…
Minister told ‘alarm bells are ringing’ over disability hate crime
Disabled campaigners have written to a government minister to warn him that “alarm bells are…