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UK varsities spying on pro-Palestine students? 12 universities paid over £440,000 to security firm - Report

Twelve UK universities paid over £440,000 to a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to spy on student protesters and academics, including those supporting Palestine, a joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates has revealed.

The Times of India

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

The Guardian - UK

Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars

Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024

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Lobbying led UK universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal

UK students faced excessive disciplinary measures as a result of heavy-handed strategy, reports claim

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Fears UK coastguards left children adrift on small boats before Channel tragedy

Children heard crying on 999 calls from boats in days before mass drowning, records suggest, yet logs contain no record of rescue attempts

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in days before mass drowning

Investigation finds evidence that many calls received prior to 2021 Channel disaster were treated as less urgent

The Guardian - UK

Met only authorised baton rounds for black-led events, FOI reveals

Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

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Black remand prisoners held 70% longer than white counterparts in England and Wales

Data also shows black defendants more likely to be held in prison – yet more likely to be acquitted

The Guardian - UK

‘Horror beyond words’: how Channel distress calls were ‘ignored’ 19 times before 2021 disaster

Investigation reveals that understaffed Dover control room was overwhelmed by calls from people in trouble before 27 died at sea

The Guardian - UK

Black girls are 'three times more likely to endure invasive Met Police strip searches'

Almost half of all girls subjected to strip searches by the Metropolitan Police between 2017 and 2022 were Black, according to a study of data analysed by Liberty Investigates

Daily Mirror

Black girls three times more likely to undergo invasive strip-search by Met police

Data analysed by Liberty Investigates shows almost half of girls subjected to strip-searches between 2017 and 2022 were Black

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers who die in UK Government housing to be remembered in new project

MERCY Baguma. Adnan Walid Elbi. Henok Zaid Gebrsslasie. You may have read these names in tragic headlines over the last two years, as all three were…

The National (Scotland)

The ‘forgotten’ lives lost waiting for asylum in Britain

Exclusive: At least 140 people have died in housing or hotels provided by the Home Office since 2016. Now a new memorial is telling their stories, writes Lizzie Dearden

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers ‘effectively detained’ at Home Office hotels with claims of ‘restricted’ movement

An investigation by The Independent and Liberty Investigates has unearthed accounts from asylum seekers who say they were prevented from leaving

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Police call monitoring could deny help to people in mental health crisis

Emergency services use SIM programme that embeds officers in clinical teams to manage patients who make repeat calls

The National (Scotland)

Calls for inquiry into asylum system as figures show rising deaths in Scotland

AN escalating number of deaths in the asylum system are being “brushed under the carpet”, it has been claimed, as data obtained from the Home…

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