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• Senate report into CIA torture to be published as e-book and paperback

  10-12-2014 23:26
  
  Chronicle of abuse against detainees will be available to buy from next month and is described as ‘the most important government document of our generation’The landmark Senate report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program will soon be available in paperback.The 500-page chronicle of abuses carried out against detainees at CIA-operated prisons around the world will be published by Melville House in paperback and as an e-book, the independent publisher announced on Wednesday. The Senate inte
  
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• Senate report into CIA torture to be published as ebook and paperback

  10-12-2014 23:26
  
  Chronicle of abuse against detainees will be available to buy from next month and is described as ‘the most important government document of our generation’The landmark Senate report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program will soon be available in paperback.The 500-page chronicle of abuses carried out against detainees at CIA-operated prisons around the world will be published by Melville House in paperback and as an ebook, the independent publisher announced on Wednesday. The Senate intel
  
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• See the most damning parts of the CIA torture report with your own eyes

  10-12-2014 23:16
  
  As journalists, experts, and advocates sift through the Senate report in real time, a picture of brutality, obfuscation and mismanagement emerges
  CIA torture report brands post-9/11 program as brutal and ineffective
  Plus: Reading between the redactions in the CIA torture reportSenator Dianne Feinstein has released the Senate intelligence committee’s long-anticipated report on CIA torture. Reporters and experts are combing through its hundreds of pages as we speak, and are documenting what they
  
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• McIlroy's lawyer denies conspiracy - Telegraph.co.uk

  10-12-2014 22:27
  
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  McIlroy's lawyer denies conspiracy
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  ... of the opening day's play of the Dubai Ladies' Masters. In the race to become the new European No 1, England's Charley Hull started with a par 67 to take a two-shot advantage over her nearest rival for the Order of Merit crown, Gwladys Nocera, of ...
  'The worst conspiracy in the world'Irish Independent
  Rory McIlroy: No evidence of conspiracy, Dublin hearing toldBBC News
  
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• White House under pressure as calls for CIA accountability grow stronger

  10-12-2014 21:50
  
  Democratic senator calls for purge of top officials in the CIAWhite House rejects claims agency misled President BushThe White House is under growing pressure to hold individuals accountable for covering up the torture of terrorist suspects, with calls coming from a senator for a purge of top CIA officials and a furious row over whether the agency kept both Congress and the previous administration sufficiently informed of the program.In his first televised remarks since Tuesday’s damning Senat
  
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• Sending troops to protect dictators threatens all of us | Seumas Milne

  10-12-2014 21:35
  
  CIA torture, crushing democracy and Britain’s new military base in Bahrain all deliver a toxic messageWe may have known the outline of the global US kidnapping and torture programme for a few years. But even the heavily censored summary of the US senate torture report turns the stomach in its litany of criminal barbarity unleashed by the CIA on real and imagined US enemies.The earlier accounts of US brutality in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo pale next to the still sanitised record of forced
  
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• The Guardian view on the CIA torture report: there is a second scandal here | Editorial

  10-12-2014 21:14
  
  The Senate report reveals that a private company played a central role in the CIA’s brutal interrogation regime. It adds more murk to what was already a catalogue of horrorsBuried deep in the US Senate’s report on CIA torture is an account of how often brutal interrogation was outsourced to a private company in receipt of huge sums of US taxpayers’ money. The CIA transferred a total of $81m to a firm set up by two psychologists involved in the interrogation programme. The value o
  
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• The Dalai Lama has a moral authority the leaders in Beijing can only dream of| Lobsang Sangay

  10-12-2014 20:46
  
  On International Human Rights Day, 25 years after he was awarded the Nobel peace prize, the Tibetan leader’s message has never mattered moreTwenty-five years ago this week in Oslo, a man who describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk was awarded the Nobel peace prize. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and the inspiration of my life’s work, remains a towering figure on the world stage. His message of peace, and emphasis on values of compassion and tolera
  
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• CIA lied to the public and John Brennan must quit, says outgoing senator in fiery speech

  10-12-2014 20:39
  
  Mark Udall, who lost his seat in Colorado last month, said the still-classified portions of the Senate report on CIA torture, represented a ‘smoking gun’A recently defeated senator described portions of a still-classified CIA overview of torture on the Senate floor as a “smoking gun,” accusing the CIA and the White House of lying about brutal CIA interrogations and continuing to cover them up.A day after the Senate intelligence committee released 500 pages of its voluminous 6,700-page in
  
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• The US comes clean on torture. Now it is Britain’s turn | Letters

  10-12-2014 20:18
  
  Ian Cobain notes (UK among allies fearing revelations over role in rendition programme, 9 December) that the nature of the involvement of the UK in the CIA’s “war on terror” torture and rendition programme “remains unclear”. The resulting injustice is multiple. First, there are the victims of practices that were illegal and immoral, and which the US Senate has also found to have been “ineffective”. Where is their “closure”? Second, there are those in the UK who authorised and p
  
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• Afghan president condemns 'inhumane torture' described in CIA report

  10-12-2014 20:11
  
  Ashraf Ghani vows to defends the dignity of those who had been jailed in reminder of how impact of CIA interrogation programme still fuels angerSenator calls for ‘purge’ of officials who violated anti-torture laws – liveAfghan president Ashraf Ghani has described detailed revelations of US torture as “shocking” and “inhumane”, and demanded to know how many Afghans had been debased in grim facilities inside their own country.
  The recently elected leader promised to defend the dign
  
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• Jihadis and Syrians unsurprised by ‘light torture’ described in CIA report | Ian Black

  10-12-2014 20:05
  
  Torture described in US report will bolster Isis propaganda, but it is hardly revelatory news to themIn the sinister propaganda videos produced by the jihadis of Islamic State, their western captives have regularly been dressed in the orange jumpsuits familiar from scenes of the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay – before being beheaded.The point is an obvious one: what Americans inflicted on Muslim fighters will be inflicted on Americans and Britons who fall into their hands. Continue
  
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• Lawyer: American arrested in Israel denies charges - Yahoo News UK

  10-12-2014 19:35
  
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  Lawyer: American arrested in Israel denies charges
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  JERUSALEM (AP) — An Illinois man charged in Israel with plotting to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem calls the allegations "nonsense," his lawyer said Wednesday. Israeli authorities indicted Everett Adam Livvix, 30, who they said once posed as ...
  Israel holds American 'planning attacks on Muslim sites'BBC News
  
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• 'Extra burdens' of consumer credit switch laid bare

  10-12-2014 19:32
  
  Advisers commissioned by Chancery Lane warn of massive and costly disruption for thousands of firms.
  
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• German exchange student's friend: I never thought garage break-ins could be fatal

  10-12-2014 18:50
  
  Teenager Diren Dede was fatally shot by Montana homeowner during break-in
  Homeowner on trial for deliberate homicide; neighbors say he spoke of ‘baiting’
  Prosecutors say homeowner lured teen to his deathPolice testify in homicide trial of Montana homeownerA friend of the German exchange student who was killed in a Montana garage said that breaking into garages was a common pastime for teens in Missoula, but no one thought it could be fatal. Robby Pazmino, who was with Diren Dede the night he
  
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• British MPs demand inquiry into UK’s role in CIA abductions

  10-12-2014 18:50
  
  Involvement of Britain and US’s other allies in CIA renditions were redacted from Senate intelligence committee reportMPs and human rights groups have demanded a judge-led inquiry into Britain’s involvement in CIA abductions of terror suspects, following the devastating US Senate intelligence committee’s report.Under pressure from Britain and other allies, their role in the CIA renditions were redacted from the report. Continue reading...
  
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• Society opens new front on legal aid cuts

  10-12-2014 18:23
  
  Chancery Lane to seek judicial review of crime duty tender process.
  
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• Grayling facing two JR bids on legal aid cuts

  10-12-2014 18:23 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Law Society and practitioners groups to launch separate actions over criminal funding reforms.
  
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• Breaking: Society opens new front on legal aid cuts

  10-12-2014 18:23
  
  Chancery Lane to seek judicial review of crime duty tender process.
  
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• Mass 'face-sitting' planned to protest UK porn laws - New York Post

  10-12-2014 18:19
  
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  Mass 'face-sitting' planned to protest UK porn laws
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  A mass “face-sitting” demonstration is being planned in London to protest a new set of porn laws in the UK. Hundreds are expected to gather on Friday outside Parliament, where demonstrators will simulate sex acts with each other and sing along to Monty ...
  'Face-sitting' part of porn protest planned outside ParliamentTelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Obama condemns CIA torture past but stays quiet on accountability

  10-12-2014 18:17
  
  Says in first comments that CIA erred but is no longer torturing
  Obama: ‘When countries are threatened often they act rashly’
  The aftermath on Capitol Hill – liveIn his first televised remarks on the torture report, President Obama stuck to his line of condemning past actions without taking sides in the debate over whether there was a cover-up for which people should be held accountable.“In the aftermath of 9/11, in the midst of a national trauma and uncertainty about whether these attac
  
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• British man begins new claims against UK government after alleged torture in Pakistan

  10-12-2014 18:13
  
  Salahuddin Amin says he was questioned by MI5 after being tortured by Pakistani intelligence officersA British man who was allegedly tortured after being detained in Pakistan at the request of the CIA and MI5 has embarked upon the latest round of his damages claim against the UK government.In a legal case that is rooted in the close relationship that British intelligence maintained with the CIA at a time when the agency was involved in the abuse of suspects, Salahuddin Amin says that the UK shou
  
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• Quindell shares plummet again as founder sells stake

  10-12-2014 17:43
  
  Company announces new and renewed contracts but good news overshadowed by Rob Terry’s share sale.
  
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• Senator calls for 'purge' of officials who violated anti-torture laws – live

  10-12-2014 17:36
  
  Senator Mark Udall blasts president on Senate floor ‘Actions speak louder than words’ on transparency, Udall saysACLU calls for special prosecutorBecause it might work: the CIA rationale for torture 11.32am ET “I have no doubt that we will emerge from this dark episode with our democracy strengthened and our future brightened,” Udall says. He concludes his speech. He says he will miss doing the “important work” of the intelligence agency “more than I can say.” Tremendous loss to
  
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• Iran rights lawyer briefly detained: husband - Yahoo News UK

  10-12-2014 17:04
  
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  Iran rights lawyer briefly detained: husband
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  Award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was briefly detained Wednesday, her husband said, weeks after she was barred from practising for three years. The couple's car was surrounded by intelligence agents on a highway in Tehran, ...
  
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• NI abortion law: NIHRC to begin legal challenge - BBC News

  10-12-2014 16:22
  
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  NI abortion law: NIHRC to begin legal challenge
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  ... be challenged in court by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC). It is seeking a change in the law to allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or "serious malformation" of a foetus. Northern Ireland's abortion law differs from the ...
  Human Rights Commission to take government to high court for refusing to ...Times of India
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• Rousseff in tears as Brazilian report details junta’s killings and torture

  10-12-2014 16:11
  
  Brazil’s president, herself tortured by 1970s military regime, breaks down as she says ‘new generations deserve truth’Brazil’s National Truth Commission delivered a damning report on the killings, disappearances and torture committed by government agents during the country’s 1964-85 military dictatorship. It called for those responsible to face prosecution.The 2,000-page report was delivered on Wednesday to President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who endured harsh torture
  
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• 'White marriages': Iran's cohabiting couples defy Sharia law - The Week UK

  10-12-2014 16:10
  
  'White marriages': Iran's cohabiting couples defy Sharia law
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  Couples in Iran are defying the country's strict Islamic law by living together outside of wedlock, angering hardline clerics who call the practice is an insult to Islam. The growing trend, known as 'white marriage' because of its association with the ...
  
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• CIA torture report: China and North Korea quick to settle scores

  10-12-2014 15:47
  
  Asian neighbours regularly criticised by the US over human rights say Senate findings prove Washington should not lectureChina and North Korea, two of the nations most often criticised by the US over human rights, have lined up to return fire after the Senate published its damning report on the CIA’s use of torture to interrogate captives suspected of terrorist involvement.A foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing said the US should “correct its ways”, while Chinese state media accused it of
  
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• CIA report could lead to prosecutions of Americans abroad

  10-12-2014 15:45
  
  Human rights groups say actions on foreign soil could fall under those countries’ legal jurisdictions or the ICC in The HagueUS officials and other American citizens implicated by the Senate report on torture could face arrest in other countries as a result of investigations by foreign courts, human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.The report, released on Tuesday by the Senate intelligence committee, found the CIA misled the White House, the Justice Department, Congress and the public over a t
  
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• Senate report on CIA torture could lead to prosecutions of Americans abroad

  10-12-2014 15:45
  
  Human rights groups say actions on foreign soil could fall under legal jurisdictions of those countries or the ICC in The HagueUS officials and other American citizens implicated by the Senate report on torture could face arrest in other countries as a result of investigations by foreign courts, human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.The report, released on Tuesday by the Senate intelligence committee, found the CIA misled the White House, the Justice Department, Congress and the public over a t
  
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• European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry

  10-12-2014 15:40
  
  Booming industry faces allegations of human rights abuses such as land grabs, forced displacement and child labourThe European Union has agreed to investigate forced displacement claims in relation to Cambodia’s troubled sugar industry. The move could see thousands of villagers compensated for illegally confiscated land and loss of earnings.The Clean Sugar Campaign – which has been calling on the EU to investigate its trade ties with Cambodia’s sugar industry since 2011 – called the deve
  
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• Former CIA leaders go on offensive to deny claim torture was ineffective

  10-12-2014 15:37
  
  Former CIA staff launch new website as former directors and deputy directors insist interrogations produced vital information in al-Qaida fight Human rights groups call for prosecutions – Wednesday’s live blogAnalysis: CIA report reveals torture program in disarrayThe former leadership of the CIA is mounting a robust fightback against a Senate report detailing scores of horrific torture incidents, with previous agency chief Michael Hayden and other ex-directors and their deputies insisting t
  
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• CIA torture report: human rights groups call for prosecutions – live

  10-12-2014 15:12
  
  Amnesty USA director says ‘torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice’ after report details controversial CIA methodsBecause it might work: the CIA rationale for tortureHow the torture report could unravel prosecutions 9.12am ET The world reacted Wednesday morning to the startlingly detailed picture of CIA torture delivered by the Senate on Tuesday. Allies expressed support mixed with regret, while regimes that the United States has sought to isolate by detailing the
  
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• My daughter killed herself after being charged over rape claims. We need answers | David de Freitas

  10-12-2014 14:03
  
  Eleanor de Freitas died on the eve of a trial for perverting the course of justice – but why did the CPS pursue the case?
  
  • Father ‘astonished’ that CPS charged her
  My only daughter, Eleanor, killed herself earlier this year on the eve of a trial where she was to be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice. Eleanor had reported an allegation of rape to the police the previous year on advice from a community support officer. It resulted in the man she accused being arrested
  
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• Eleanor de Freitas’s father ‘astonished’ that CPS charged her over rape claim

  10-12-2014 14:03
  
  David de Freitas wants full inquest compliant with article 2 of the Human Rights Act to investigate case
  
  David de Freitas: we need answersThe father of a woman who killed herself after being charged with lying about a rape believes a full inquest compliant with article 2 of the Human Rights Act is his only hope of finding out whether the decision to prosecute her contributed to his daughter’s death.Writing in the Guardian, David de Freitas, the father of 23-year-old Eleanor, said that par
  
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• Chinese rights lawyer Pu denies all police charges - Yahoo News UK

  10-12-2014 13:50
  
  Chinese rights lawyer Pu denies all police charges
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  BEIJING (AP) — A lawyer for detained Chinese legal activist Pu Zhiqiang said Wednesday he has denied police charges that fellow activists say were trumped up to silence a prominent government critic. Mo Shaoping said he obtained a police document ...
  
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• Abe defends Japan’s secrets law that could jail whistleblowers for 10 years

  10-12-2014 13:45
  
  Tokyo says new rules only apply to security and intelligence but opponents claim it will be used to crack down on political dissentJapan’s government has been accused of trying to stifle the public’s right to know after enacting a controversial state secrets law that critics say marks a return to the days of Japanese militarism.Under the new law, which was passed a year ago, civil servants who leak state secrets face up to 10 years in prison, while journalists who encourage whistleblowers to
  
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• What happens after the torture report? How the CIA's victims can still get justice | Trevor Timm

  10-12-2014 13:45
  
  The cowardly Obama administration wants America’s ‘brutal’ history to become just that. But torture is a war crime. Let’s investigate the architects. Let’s make sure this kind of rampant criminality never happens againTorture report could unravel prosecution of alleged 9/11 mastermindsExperts: Reading between the redactions in the reportEarlier: Stop believing the lies – and America’s cover-upPlus: Follow complete coverage of the CIA torture reportEveryone expected the Senate’s C
  
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• Minister tells judges to keep out of legal aid disputes

  10-12-2014 13:32 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  Shailesh Vara tells committee of MPs that existing rules should be adhered to in funding issues.
  
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• Venerable London law firms to merge

  10-12-2014 13:20
  
  Hunters, and May, May and Merrimans were founded in the 18th century.
  
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• The US owns up to torture, finally. But who else does?

  10-12-2014 13:08
  
  CIA report acknowledges brutal methods in its ‘intelligence gathering’ at last – but most countries would not even do thatThe amiable Matthew Barzun, top Obama fundraiser turned US ambassador to London, sidestepped questions about CIA torture at Westminsteron Tuesday, though he was happy to defend US tech giants against well founded allegations of tax avoidance. They play cleverly by the rules, he said. We now know the CIA did not.As newspapers of all persuasions have rushed to declare the
  
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• The US owns up to torture, finally. But who else does? | Michael White

  10-12-2014 13:08
  
  CIA report acknowledges brutal methods in its ‘intelligence gathering’ at last – but most countries would not even do thatThe amiable Matthew Barzun, top Obama fundraiser turned US ambassador to London, sidestepped questions about CIA torture at Westminster on Tuesday, though he was happy to defend US tech giants against well-founded allegations of tax avoidance. They play cleverly by the rules, he said. We now know the CIA did not.As newspapers of all persuasions have rushed to declare th
  
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• Judicial reviews: a decision that’s best left to judges | Joshua Rozenberg

  10-12-2014 12:32
  
  The justice secretary wants to restrict access to judicial reviews, but judging the lawfulness of executive action should not be a matter for the executiveThe CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation programme was “authorised by the highest levels of the US government [and] judged legal by the justice department,” according to José Rodriguez, the former CIA officer responsible for it. It was a telling response to reports of the Senate intelligence committee’s inquiry into torture. Whatever w
  
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• To the criminal justice system black and Muslim people embody our nightmares | Lola Young

  10-12-2014 11:52
  
  Britain treats young minorities with suspicion and jails a higher proportion of black people than the United StatesImagine this: you are sitting on a train, going through notes for a speech. No one sits close to you, other passengers preferring to stand for several stops. You reach your destination. You give your speech, then answer probing questions. Afterwards, a member of the audience approaches you and apologises: she had seen you, she admitted, from a station platform sitting with your comp
  
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• Black and Muslim people are the criminal justice system’s greatest fear | Lola Young

  10-12-2014 11:52
  
  Britain treats young minorities with suspicion and jails a higher proportion of black people than the United StatesImagine this: you are sitting on a train, going through notes for a speech. No one sits close to you, other passengers preferring to stand for several stops. You reach your destination. You give your speech, then answer probing questions. Afterwards, a member of the audience approaches you and apologises: she had seen you, she admitted, from a station platform sitting with your comp
  
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