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• Stun guns won’t bring an end to violence in prisons | Letters

  27-04-2025 18:28
  
  Readers respond to an article by former prison officer Alex South, in which she says the weapons might keep staff and inmates safeThe decision to pilot the use of stun guns in prisons was inevitable, but terrible (I hate the idea of British prison officers carrying stun guns – but it may be our only option, 22 April). How to reduce violence in our jails? The response always seems to be some new piece of kit – be it Pava spray, which it appears has been authorised for use on children,
  
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• Shabana Mahmood warned of risk to pregnant women in halting Sentencing Council guidelines

  27-04-2025 17:00
  
  Exclusive: Stopping pre-sentencing reports could put more pregnant people behind bars, groups tell justice ministerShabana Mahmood risks putting more pregnant women behind bars through her bill to prevent new guidelines which highlighted the need for pre-sentencing reports based on “different personal characteristics” including age, sex and ethnicity, charities have warned.The justice secretary introduced the bill as emergency legislation after the Sentencing Council’s guidelin
  
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• Israel faces legal pressure at UN’s top court over Unrwa ban

  27-04-2025 15:37
  
  Hearings over bar on cooperation with Palestinian aid agency are test of Israel’s defiance of international lawIsrael will come under sustained legal pressure this week at the UN’s top court when lawyers from more than 40 states will claim the country’s ban on all cooperation with the UN’s Palestinian rights agency Unrwa is a breach of the UN charter.The five days of hearings at the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague have been given a fresh urgency by Israe
  
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• The international criminal court should prosecute Syria’s Assad | Kenneth Roth

  27-04-2025 12:00
  
  For the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for SyriansThere are few regimes as cruel as the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There was seemingly no limit to what it would do to sustain his grasp on power, including dropping chemical weapons and barrel bombs on civilians in territory held by the armed opposition, and starving, torturing, “disappearing” and executing perceived opponents. The victims numbered in the hundreds of t
  
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• Vodafone whistleblowers warned executives about plight of high street store staff

  27-04-2025 08:00
  Exclusive: Warnings on slashed commission rates came two years before high court claim alleging telecom firm was ‘unjustly enriching’ itselfWhistleblowers warned a series of senior Vodafone executives – including the current chief executive, Margherita Della Valle – that scores of its franchised store owners faced financial ruin about two years before a high court claim accused the company of “unjustly enriching” itself.Vodafone employees made repeated complai
  
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• Toilet access should follow biological sex but trans people still need facilities, UK watchdog says

  27-04-2025 06:26
  EHRC releases guidance in response to supreme court ruling, saying trans men and women need ‘suitable alternatives’The UK’s equalities watchdog has said trans women and men “should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use” as it issued interim guidance after the supreme court ruling on biological sex.Trans women “should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities” in workplaces or public-facing services like shops a
  
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