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Bethany Rielly
POLICING THE POLICE: GLC leader Ken Livingstone (centre), wi
Features / 10 March 2023
10 March 2023
In an exclusive investigation, BETHANY RIELLY looks at how the state targeted leading politicians and campaigning groups — labelling many well-known figures 'extremists' and 'subversives' for attempting to hold the police to account
Eritrean female soldiers
Features / 12 December 2022
12 December 2022
On September 4, 16 Eritrean asylum-seekers were arrested at a protest against their country’s dictatorship and its supporters here. Since then, questions have been raised about whether the British authorities are doing enough to protect activists and asylum-seekers from the ‘long arm’ of the regime in Asmara
Famed Palestinian resistance fighter and cultural activist Z
Features / 25 October 2021
25 October 2021
Bethany Rielly speaks to Jenin Freedom Theatre’s artistic director AHMED TOBASI about his friend Zubeidi’s ongoing legacy as a symbol of Palestinian liberation and cultural resistance
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 23 September 2021
23 September 2021
UNHCR says the Home Secretary's plans will cause ‘significant suffering’ to people seeking refuge in Britain
Britain / 17 June 2021
17 June 2021
Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent
Britain / 3 June 2021
3 June 2021
Campaigners call for closure of camp after judge rules in favour of six residents
Britain / 1 June 2021
1 June 2021
Front-line medic ‘would have been denied entry’ under new policy
Britain / 28 May 2021
28 May 2021
Campaigners stage Downing Street protest as Johnson rolls out the red carpet for far-right Orban
A young family picked up in the English Channel by the Borde
Britain / 27 May 2021
27 May 2021
Only 353 people fleeing war and conflict were resettled in Britain in the year to March 2020

Protesters attempt to stop police officers from removing Pa
Britain / 25 May 2021
25 May 2021
Hours after the Leicester factory protest ends, Palestine Action announces it has occupied another Elbit site in Tamworth
Demonstrators on Broadmead in Bristol during a march in soli
Britain / 21 May 2021
21 May 2021
IDF attacks al-Aqsa Mosque as Palestine ceasefire begins
Demonstrators walk through Kensington as they make their way
Britain / 17 May 2021
17 May 2021
The British government has licensed more than £400 million worth of arms to Israeli forces since 2015, including drones, missiles and warplanes, according to Campaign Against the Arms Trade
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London,
Britain / 10 May 2021
10 May 2021
The activist said she was very vulnerable as a result of recently leaving her abusive ex-husband
Demonstrators outside the Amba Hotel at Marble Arch, London,
Britain / 28 April 2021
28 April 2021
Belly Mujinga’s death / 5 April 2021
5 April 2021
Still no inquest after ‘spat-at’ rail worker died with Covid
Britain / 2 April 2021
2 April 2021
70 MPs warn against the measure as PM Boris Johnson announced that there will “definitely” be a role for Covid-19 passports for Britons travelling abroad
Demonstrators outside Brighton Police Station during the 'Ki
Britain / 2 April 2021
2 April 2021
Around 50 rallies are due to take place against government plans to hand police more powers to restrict peaceful protest
A Surge of Power, an artwork used to replace the toppled sta
Britain / 1 April 2021
1 April 2021
Listed stakeholders say they were never consulted
People in the crowd turn on their phone torches in Clapham C
Britain / 30 March 2021
30 March 2021
Report denies cops at Clapham Common vigil were ‘heavy handed’
John Spellar MP
Britain / 28 March 2021
28 March 2021
Spellar urged to clarify whether he assisted Tories as an EETPU official – Bethany Rielly reports
Police officers detain a man as they move in on demonstrator
Britain / 28 March 2021
28 March 2021
Footage appears to show officers in riot gear beating participants with batons and shields
A man kneels on the statue of slave trader Edward Colston be
Britain / 2 March 2021
2 March 2021
Britain / 18 February 2021
18 February 2021
General view of the Young Offender Institution Portland in D
Britain / 3 February 2021
3 February 2021
Survey into the experiences of child offenders found less than half felt cared for in their establishment
Unelected members of the House of Lords listen to a speech b
Britain / 21 January 2021
21 January 2021
Labour's Baroness Chakrabarti ‘ashamed’ she couldn’t persuade peers of the ‘dangers of granting advance immunity for criminal actions for a whole raft of state agents’
Pupils arriving at Manor Park School and Nursery in Knutsfor
Britain / 17 January 2021
17 January 2021
Labour to lead parliamentary motion to cancel universal credit cuts and extend free school meals
Homeless people's tents erected outside a furniture store in
Britain / 6 January 2021
6 January 2021
Generation Rent calls on government to reinstate full eviction ban on court proceedings and bailiffs
Scotland / 23 December 2020
23 December 2020
New analysis shows the cuts have cost Scottish pensioners £40m this year
Britain / 22 December 2020
22 December 2020
Crisis warns that without a concerted effort by ministers, England could see a 90% rise in rough sleeping over the next decade
People walk past a homeless man in London
Britain / 14 December 2020
14 December 2020
Rapid increase in deaths of homeless people is a ‘shameful sign of government failure,’ Labour charges
‘BONKERS’- Labour’s David Lammy queried the Tories’
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Asylum seekers queue for the one canteen at Napier Barracks
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Britain / 7 December 2020
7 December 2020
Features / 6 December 2020
6 December 2020
BETHANY RIELLY speaks to Saleh, a Yemeni asylum-seeker facing deportation on one of the Home Office’s notorious charter flights
Campagners from CAAT make their way to stage a ‘die-in’
Britain / 3 December 2020
3 December 2020
Campaigners outside Downing Street, London, protest against
Britain / 2 December 2020
2 December 2020
Britain / 1 December 2020
1 December 2020
Campaigners protesting charter flights
Britain / 30 November 2020
30 November 2020
Britain / 29 November 2020
29 November 2020
Report highlights prosecution failures: Campaigners call for action
Britain / 22 November 2020
22 November 2020
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 20 November 2020
20 November 2020
Women's Liberation group marches in protest in support of Bl
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 18 November 2020
18 November 2020
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 17 November 2020
17 November 2020
Campaigners frustrated that only cases in England and Wales are to be investigated
Then Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman joins Union leaders
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 17 November 2020
17 November 2020
Peter Hain and fellow supporters of the Anti-Apartheid movem
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 16 November 2020
16 November 2020
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 13 November 2020
13 November 2020
Former officer says SDS officers were foot soldiers for MI5
Spied on campaigners hold up banner outside amba hotel in ma
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 11 November 2020
11 November 2020
Spycops Inquiry / 10 November 2020
10 November 2020
Inquiry told deceived women were made to feel worthless after being ‘used as mere objects to prop up lies of fake activists’
Lady Justice
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 8 November 2020
8 November 2020
A protest at police spying on lawful organisations held in 2
Britain / 6 November 2020
6 November 2020
by Bethany Rielly
Richard and Audrey Adams (left and centre), parents of murde
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 5 November 2020
5 November 2020
Spycops targeted Audrey and Richard Adams after they launched a campaign to seek justice for their son Rolan, who was killed by fascists
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, w
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 4 November 2020
4 November 2020
Oliver Sanders QC described the ‘casual’ sexual encounters undercover officers had with the unsuspecting activists were ‘the kind that happens between consenting men and women’
A demonstrator outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London,
Undercover Policing Inquiry / 2 November 2020
2 November 2020
Greek cops stand by as buses are brought to transport the re
World / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Human rights organisations condemn ‘absurd decision’ to evict the asylum seekers
Police officers in London
Britain / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Human rights group Liberty warns emergency Covid-19 powers have ‘exacerbated unfair, excessive and discriminatory policing’
Britain / 30 October 2020
30 October 2020
Asylum Matters says government has blown the chance to put things right for those seeking refugee status in Britain
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a rally in Glasgow i
Britain / 29 October 2020
29 October 2020
The former Labour leader says he will strongly ‘contest the political intervention to suspend me’ and to ‘continue to support a zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of racism’
A general view of a separation cell in the Dumyat Wing at Co
Britain / 27 October 2020
27 October 2020
UN torture expert Nils Melzer blasts ‘inhumane’ practice
Acorn activists in Bristol on Saturday
Britain / 25 October 2020
25 October 2020
Britain / 25 October 2020
25 October 2020
Britain / 22 October 2020
22 October 2020
Children stand by the sea at the Kara Tepe refugee camp, on
Britain / 19 October 2020
19 October 2020
British-based research group Forensic Architecture confirms expulsions are ‘widespread and continuous’
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought into Do
Britain / 16 October 2020
16 October 2020
Refugee rights groups to hold welcome event outside Napier Barracks in Folkestone
Qatari government soldiers
Britain / 16 October 2020
16 October 2020
The government's agreement, which will allow the Gulf state to use a British military air base, comes after Qatar purchased nine Hawk jets from BAE systems, Britain’s largest arms firm
Britain / 14 October 2020
14 October 2020
Britain / 14 October 2020
14 October 2020
Labour peer Lord Alan West outside Westminster Abbey last De
Britain / 11 October 2020
11 October 2020
Lord West apologies for language on Channel crossings
An anti-HS2 sign on a farmers gate in the Aylesbury Vale, Bu
Britain / 9 October 2020
9 October 2020
XR brand the high speed rail project one ‘of greed not need’
Britain / 8 October 2020
8 October 2020
Coalition of doctors and charities call for Covid-safe shelters as cold weather bites