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One step closer in decade-long battle for stronger disability hate crime laws

By John Pring on 9th December 2021 Category: Crime

One step closer in decade-long battle for stronger disability hate crime laws
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The decade-long battle for tougher laws on disability hate crime moved a step closer this week after the Law Commission announced a series of measures that would make it easier to secure convictions, if its recommendations are accepted by the government. […]

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Human Rights

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years
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Council, police and other agencies across Bristol have again been found to have repeatedly failed disabled people, in the third such damning report to hit the city in just four years. This week’s report by Sir Stephen Bubb examined multi-agency failings […]

Kamil Ahmad: Anger over review’s failure to expose systemic flaws that led to murder

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Kamil Ahmad: Anger over review’s failure to expose systemic flaws that led to murder
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The brother of a disabled asylum-seeker who was brutally murdered by a racist neighbour has joined disabled activists in criticising a “safeguarding review” for failing to expose the “catalogue of injustice” he faced in the years leading to his death. They […]

Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders
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Disabled asylum-seekers and activists have come together to seek fundamental changes to the systems and agencies that have been blamed for the brutal murders of two disabled refugees in the same city. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and groups working with asylum-seekers […]

Memorial and procession will highlight need for reform after brutal murder

By John Pring on 7th June 2018 Category: Human Rights

Memorial and procession will highlight need for reform after brutal murder
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Campaigners will take part in a procession later this month to mark the murder of a disabled asylum-seeker and highlight the need for sweeping changes to the system that failed him. Disabled asylum-seekers and activists, grassroots groups, academics and policy-makers will […]

Murdered disabled refugee ‘was repeatedly failed by council and police’

By John Pring on 21st December 2017 Category: Crime

Murdered disabled refugee ‘was repeatedly failed by council and police’
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A disabled refugee who was murdered after years of racist harassment and abuse was repeatedly failed by a police force and his local authority, according to a long-awaited review into the events that led to his death. The review by the […]

Police and council face questions over second murder of disabled refugee

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Crime

Police and council face questions over second murder of disabled refugee
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Public bodies in Bristol are facing allegations of institutional disablism and racism, after the second case in four years in which a man has been convicted of the brutal murder of a disabled refugee. Friends say that Kamil Ahmad had repeatedly […]

Kamil Ahmad: Discrimination led to murder of disabled refugee, say friends

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Crime

Kamil Ahmad: Discrimination led to murder of disabled refugee, say friends
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Friends of a disabled Kurdish asylum-seeker have spoken of the institutionalised discrimination that they believe led to his murder at the hands of a racist neighbour. Kamil Ahmad wanted nothing more than a safe place that he could call home, after […]

Police watchdog criticised over investigation into murder of disabled refugee

By John Pring on 6th July 2017 Category: Crime

Police watchdog criticised over investigation into murder of disabled refugee
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A watchdog has been criticised for failing to investigate whether disability hate crime played a part in the harassment and abuse suffered by a disabled refugee, who was repeatedly failed by police officers over seven years before being brutally murdered. Bijan […]

Police duo jailed over failure to protect disabled murder victim

By John Pring on 11th February 2016 Category: Crime

Police duo jailed over failure to protect disabled murder victim
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Disability hate crime campaigners have welcomed a judge’s decision to jail two members of police staff whose failures allowed the murder of a disabled man who had begged officers for protection. Avon and Somerset police constable Kevin Duffy and community support […]

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