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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 marching in a parade
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
Zakaria Zubeidi
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
protesters
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 Pal
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
Belly Mujinga’s death / 5 April 2021
5 April 2021
Still no inquest after ‘spat-at’ rail worker died with Covid
vaccine
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 Edward Colston
Britain / 2 March 2021
2 March 2021
passport
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
House of Lords
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