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Bethany Rielly
People take part in a Million Women Rise march outside Chari
Britain / 4 March 2023
4 March 2023
Million Women Rise call out state failures to tackle misogyny and racism in society
People are silhouetted against the COVID-19 Memorial Wall on
Britain / 28 February 2023
28 February 2023
Britain / 28 February 2023
28 February 2023
A rescue team surveys the site of a massive explosion in the
Britain / 24 February 2023
24 February 2023
Shamima Begum, pictured here aged 15 before she fled to Syri
Britain / 22 February 2023
22 February 2023
Although court found there was 'credible suspicion' that she was trafficked for sexual exploitation as a child, it was not enough for her to win her appeal
Police officers detain activists from Just Stop Oil during t
Britain / 22 February 2023
22 February 2023
Activist and political commentator Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Britain / 21 February 2023
21 February 2023
Britain / 20 February 2023
20 February 2023
New report by Inquest disputes government's claim that there is no evidence more black people die than white people following police contact
Anaïs Franquesa, a lawyer from the Barcelona-based human ri
Britain / 16 February 2023
16 February 2023
Riot police at the scene as a police van goes up in flames o
Britain / 12 February 2023
12 February 2023
15 arrested at far-right rally after rioters set police van on fire and ‘threw fireworks’ at hotel housing asylum-seekers in Knowsley
Peace Pledge Union chair Peter Glasgow (middle) and campaign
Britain / 10 February 2023
10 February 2023
Former Afghan interpreters and veterans hold a demonstration
Britain / 10 February 2023
10 February 2023
‘We owe it to those who placed their lives in danger to help us to get them and their families to safety,’ Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says
Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire.
Britain / 9 February 2023
9 February 2023
Houses in south London
Britain / 9 February 2023
9 February 2023
Labour's Clive Betts says the government's white paper ‘fails to address the most serious challenge currently facing many private renters — the high cost of renting caused by the housing crisis’
Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrives in Downing Street, L
Britain / 9 February 2023
9 February 2023
A sign at a BP petrol station in London, Tuesday, February 7
Britain / 7 February 2023
7 February 2023
Campaigners call for polluters' tax as oil firms make record gains
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) protesters outside the Ro
Britain / 3 February 2023
3 February 2023
Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the Colon
Britain / 26 January 2023
26 January 2023
A campaigner for advocacy group Liberty, dressed as Deputy P
Britain / 25 January 2023
25 January 2023
Britain / 24 January 2023
24 January 2023
Anti-arms campaigners outside Twickenham Stadium
Britain / 23 January 2023
23 January 2023
1,071 rotten apples outside New Scotland Yard, reflecting th
Britain / 20 January 2023
20 January 2023
Campaigners dump 1,071 rotten apples — one for each officer investigated over allegations of violence against women and girls — outside Scotland Yard
Palestine Action activists occupy the roof of Leonardo facto
Britain / 19 January 2023
19 January 2023
Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London, as th
Britain / 18 January 2023
18 January 2023
Tory ‘ministers have rightly been called out for spinning mistruths,’ TUC general secretary Paul Nowak says 
Ambulances outside Waterloo Ambulance Station, south London.
Britain / 22 December 2022
22 December 2022
Britain / 21 December 2022
21 December 2022
Beckenham MP Bob Stewart
Britain / 20 December 2022
20 December 2022
Home Secretary Suella Braverman
Britain / 19 December 2022
19 December 2022
by Bethany Rielly at the Royal Courts of Justice 
Police Forensic officers head to the forensic tents erected
Britain / 15 December 2022
15 December 2022
Britain / 12 December 2022
12 December 2022
The Drax Power Station near Selby in 2007
Britain / 12 December 2022
12 December 2022
Green Party blasts government for failing to invest in renewable energy and insulate the nations’ homes
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a B
Britain / 5 December 2022
5 December 2022
Proposals to imprison asylum-seekers arriving by small boat would be illegal, UNHCR tells the Home Secretary
Britain / 29 November 2022
29 November 2022
Just Stop Oil activists in London
Britain / 28 November 2022
28 November 2022
The environmentalists are demanding that the government stop issuing licences for new oil and gas projects
Britain / 25 November 2022
25 November 2022
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a B
Britain / 23 November 2022
23 November 2022
Candle-lit vigils to be held on Thursday night in France and England to remember and demand justice for those who lost their lives on November 24 2021
Sirwan Alipour, a 23-year-old Iranian Kurd, (left) and (righ
Features / 23 November 2022
23 November 2022
Britain leaves bereaved relatives of 31 people who drowned in icy waters of the Channel on November 24, 2021, in agonising wait for answers. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, leaves Downing Street, W
Britain / 18 November 2022
18 November 2022
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan appears before a Police and Crim
Britain / 16 November 2022
16 November 2022
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Crown Prince Mohammed
Britain / 15 November 2022
15 November 2022
‘It’s disappointing that the Prime Minister didn’t raise the need for justice for Jamal Khashoggi’s calculated murder,’ Amnesty says
People take part in a protest outside the Home Office in Wes
Britain / 15 November 2022
15 November 2022
ITV documentary finds new evidence that questions official explanation on the 27 people who drowned in the Channel last November
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to D
Britain / 14 November 2022
14 November 2022
Braverman's new arrangement will be ‘more dangerous’ for asylum-seekers and more profitable for ‘ruthless smuggling gangs’, campaigners warn
Scottish trade unionists’ commitment to the Palestinian pe
Britain / 6 November 2022
6 November 2022
A midwife talking to a pregnant woman
Britain / 3 November 2022
3 November 2022
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady and Deputy General S
Britain / 2 November 2022
2 November 2022
Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street, London
Britain / 31 October 2022
31 October 2022
Britain / 30 October 2022
30 October 2022
Part of the Manston immigration short-term holding facility
Britain / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
Around 60 men detained at the centre in Manston, Kent, stage peaceful sit-in protest over the conditions
Demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland m
Britain / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London,
Britain / 28 October 2022
28 October 2022
Suella Braverman the British Home Secretary, leaves 10 Downi
Britain / 26 October 2022
26 October 2022
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central L
Britain / 21 October 2022
21 October 2022
Privilege Style says it will no longer participate with Tory scheme following email campaign by torture survivors and refugee organisations
ALARMING: Suella Braverman
Britain / 17 October 2022
17 October 2022
BETHANY RIELLY reports
Former Kensington MP Emma Dent-Coad
Britain / 17 October 2022
17 October 2022
Former MP says fairness 'sacrificed for sake of factional intrigue by Labour officials'
(L to R) Ricky Tomlinson at his home in Liverpool and with D
Interview / 14 October 2022
14 October 2022
On the 50th anniversary of the 1972 national builders strike, BETHANY RIELLY talks to the former construction worker turned award-winning actor about the lasting legacy of the historic walkout and the deepening divide between the ruling and working class
A woman holds a placard with a picture of Iranian Mahsa Amin
Britain / 10 October 2022
10 October 2022
Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaking during the Conserva
Britain / 10 October 2022
10 October 2022
File photo dated 04/07/22 of criminal defence barristers out
Britain / 10 October 2022
10 October 2022
Criminal Bar Association calls off indefinite strike after barristers accept the Ministry of Justice’s 15% pay offer. However, barristers warn of more walkouts if ministers fail to fulfil their commitments
Britain / 7 October 2022
7 October 2022
The British government ignored climate change warnings and is awarding licenses for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea
A person walking a dry bank of a tributary to the Dowry Rese
Britain / 7 October 2022
7 October 2022
‘The worst thing about these figures is that this is only the beginning as the climate crisis intensifies,’ XR spokesperson says
Then foreign secretary Liz Truss (centre left) and Israeli F
Britain / 5 October 2022
5 October 2022
Friends of al-Aqsa warn the move will send a ‘clear message of British support for the violation of international law’
Chris Kaba's cousin Jefferson Bosela reads a statement outsi
Britain / 4 October 2022
4 October 2022
Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss walks past Larry the Cat,
Britain / 30 September 2022
30 September 2022
Labour members protest against the party's silence on the Fo
Britain / 25 September 2022
25 September 2022
A police cordon remains at the scene in Kirkstall Gardens, S
Britain / 25 September 2022
25 September 2022
Chris Kaba's relatives say allegations about his past are not relevant to why he was shot dead by police
Britain / 21 September 2022
21 September 2022
William (left) and (right) Charles Windsor with Saudi Crown
Britain / 16 September 2022
16 September 2022
The tyrant has not visited Britain since the murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018
Labour MP Diane Abbott
Britain / 16 September 2022
16 September 2022
Diane Abbott highlights the police killing of Chris Kaba in the Morning Star
A young girl is carried to shore as a group of people though
Britain / 15 September 2022
15 September 2022
ANGER: Protesters march through London at the weekend to cal
Britain / 11 September 2022
11 September 2022
Chris Kaba was shot dead by police on Monday
Britain / 8 September 2022
8 September 2022
Criminal defence barristers gather outside the Bristol Crown
Britain / 6 September 2022
6 September 2022
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central L
Britain / 5 September 2022
5 September 2022
Extinction Rebellion activists glue themselves to Speaker’
Britain / 2 September 2022
2 September 2022
Members of Extinction Rebellion call for a ‘citizens’ assembly’ to give ordinary people the power to make decisions on the climate crisis
Britain / 1 September 2022
1 September 2022
by Bethany Rielly, Home affairs reporter
A man enjoys a day on the beach with his daughter in Gaza Ci
Britain / 30 August 2022
30 August 2022
Councillors refuse to allow speakers from the besieged Palestinian territory to address a debate on the issue
Britain / 12 August 2022
12 August 2022
 HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Chief Fire & Rescue
Britain / 11 August 2022
11 August 2022
Britain / 8 August 2022
8 August 2022
9 in 10 NHS dentists are unable to accept new adult patients
Houses in the wealthy district of Marylebone, London
Britain / 8 August 2022
8 August 2022
Britain / 5 August 2022
5 August 2022
Liberty says it's no surprise this government would deploy such a tactic ‘as part of its racist hostile environment’
Rishi Sunak speaking at the All Nations Centre in Cardiff as
Britain / 4 August 2022
4 August 2022
Cage says the former chancellor is ‘exploiting Tory prejudices against Muslims especially, to frame those challenging growing state impunity as extreme’
Undated handout photo of 2 Marwa Koofi, 21, who fled Kabul,
Britain / 4 August 2022
4 August 2022
Mick Purdy, 74, is given a spirometry test in a bespoke tran
Britain / 1 August 2022
1 August 2022
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Britain / 31 July 2022
31 July 2022
Campaigners back call from John McDonnell to address ‘unjust treatment of party activists’
Britain / 20 July 2022
20 July 2022
 File photo dated 21/12/2021 of a nurse puts on PPE in a war
Britain / 20 July 2022
20 July 2022
Home Secretary Priti Patel was repeatedly advised not to str
Britain / 19 July 2022
19 July 2022
Britain’s high commissioner to Rwanda cited human rights concerns and feared that refugees would be forced into the army
Shadow Foreign secretary Lisa Nandy speaks on stage at the L
Britain / 18 July 2022
18 July 2022
The shadow minister says Tory leadership candidates are instead "vying for Margaret Thatcher’s mantle", promising tax cuts for the wealthy
File photo dated 14/07/22 of a group of people thought to be
Britain / 17 July 2022
17 July 2022
The Dungavel detention centre in Scotland is among the locat
Britain / 15 July 2022
15 July 2022
Nationwide action set to take place outside detention centres across Britain
Turn2Us has warned the majority could see the first payment
Britain / 12 July 2022
12 July 2022
Britain / 11 July 2022
11 July 2022
New survey finds 1.6 million households falling into financial difficulty since October 2021, bringing the total of struggling households to 4.4 million
An Amnesty International campaigner, wearing a Priti Patel m
Britain / 5 July 2022
5 July 2022
Charity's slam Home Office's reported plans to sanction countries that won't accept deportees from Britain
Undated family handout photo of Jermaine Baker, from Tottenh
Britain / 5 July 2022
5 July 2022
But probe hears of a ‘catalogue of failures’ in planning and execution of police operation
A young asylum seeker stands at the gates of the Sangatte ho
Britain / 4 July 2022
4 July 2022
Campaigners are calling for an end to the government's use of unregulated hotels to house lone children.
Britain / 30 June 2022
30 June 2022
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab
Human Rights / 22 June 2022
22 June 2022
Hanna Sylivon, 76, stands inside her house destroyed by atta
Britain / 20 June 2022
20 June 2022
Lewisham West and Penge MP Ellie Reeves raises case of a mother forced to rely on food banks while waiting for her universal credit payments
People waving Afghan flags attend a protest against Taliban
Britain / 16 June 2022
16 June 2022
British government's inaction has caused ‘incalculable trauma’ to those still waiting to be relocated to Britain, human rights charity Azadi says
Palestine Action activists outside Bristol Crown Court
Britain / 15 June 2022
15 June 2022
Priti Patel shouts out during the Platinum Jubilee concert,
Britain / 15 June 2022
15 June 2022
Campaigners vow to continue fighting Home Office's inhumane policy after first deportation flight is grounded
Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 10 June 2022
10 June 2022
Campaigners express ‘deep disappointment’ after application for injunction to halt next week's charter flight to African nation rejected by High Court
Dozens of people gathered outside the Rwandan high commissio
IMMIGRATION / 8 June 2022
8 June 2022
Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during the Conservative Pa
Britain / 8 June 2022
8 June 2022
A man gives change to a homeless person in central London
Britain / 7 June 2022
7 June 2022
‘Unless housing is rightfully recognised as a basic legal human right, there is no way to hold the government to account for its woeful failings,’ Amnesty chief executive says
Culture / 3 June 2022
3 June 2022
BETHANY RIELLY is struck by a sensitive and powerful portrayal of a community's battle against callous institutions
A police officer demonstrating the use of a Taser
Britain / 27 May 2022
27 May 2022
British Transport Police to be the first force to roll out the weapons
Britain / 27 May 2022
27 May 2022
Southwark council claimed the family of five moved into overcrowded studio flat in gentrified area as a ‘deliberate act’
Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta (left) with Britain'
Britain / 19 May 2022
19 May 2022
Campaigners say the postponement was a direct response to a letter sent to the Home Office as part of a legal challenge to the policy
Britain / 18 May 2022
18 May 2022
Palestinian Action members were arrested after breaking into Elbit System’s premises in Bristol.
Blair Peach
Britain / 11 May 2022
11 May 2022
Police sat on report concluding Blair Peach was ‘almost certainly’ killed by a police officer for 30 years
Activists from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate on Oxford St
Britain / 11 May 2022
11 May 2022
The climate activist group has called for mass protests on September 10 in response to new Bill which seeks to introduce criminal offences for activists “locking on” to and “interfering” with infrastructure.
People take part in a Million Women Rise march outside Chari
Britain / 11 May 2022
11 May 2022
Tories set to introduce 38 new bills, which campaigners say will risk undermining the fight to end violence against women.
A mobile billboard van, commissioned by human rights organis
Britain / 10 May 2022
10 May 2022
Liberty warns the government ‘are quite literally rewriting the rules in their favour so they become untouchable’
Britain / 8 May 2022
8 May 2022
Britain / 8 May 2022
8 May 2022
Britain / 6 May 2022
6 May 2022
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard Bor
Britain / 28 April 2022
28 April 2022
The Star speaks with refugees who have run away from hostels over fears of being deported
Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Tyne with her support vessel on p
Britain / 25 April 2022
25 April 2022
Campaigners outside Home Office in London, protesting agains
Features / 22 April 2022
22 April 2022
Brook House inquiry: Evidence of gut-wrenching abuse and mistreatment inside ‘hell-hole’ detention centre must serve as warning against Tory plans to ramp up detention, BETHANY RIELLY argues
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a
Britain / 19 April 2022
19 April 2022
Theresa May, the architect of Britain’s hostile environment policy, says she does not support the plan on the grounds ‘legality, practicality and efficacy’
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
Britain / 19 April 2022
19 April 2022
CND's Kate Hudson says the move will ‘escalate this war, rather than bring it to an urgent conclusion’
Royal Navy HMS Blazer tows two small boats as it arrives in
Britain / 15 April 2022
15 April 2022
NGOs, faith groups and MPs baffled by PM's ‘fly Channel refugees to East Africa’ deal
Israeli security forces point their guns at Palestinians dem
Britain / 15 April 2022
15 April 2022
Grenfell Tower, covered in plastic sheeting
Britain / 13 April 2022
13 April 2022
Hisam Choucair lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces and nephew in the blaze
A cross-bench peer has criticised the government's Ukraine v
Britain / 10 April 2022
10 April 2022
An example of a detainee room on D Wing on the official open
Britain / 5 April 2022
5 April 2022
Stephanie Harrison QC describes how her clients were subjected to a ‘shocking pattern of inhumane and degrading treatment’
XR activists block a road
Britain / 1 April 2022
1 April 2022
Police arrest dozens of Extinction Rebellion and the Stop Oil Coalition protesters
Refugees wait in a crowd for transportation after fleeing fr
Britain / 30 March 2022
30 March 2022
Just 10% of the 28,300 people who applied for the Homes for Ukraine scheme have been granted, official figures show
Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledges his supporters aft
Britain / 29 March 2022
29 March 2022
The Tories’ Nationality & Borders Bill, the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill and moves to scrap the Human Rights Act have all been flagged as matters of serious concern by the organisation in its annual report
Britain / 25 March 2022
25 March 2022
Government scraps exemption to the minimum wage rule which saw some workers paid as little as £1 an hour
Palestinian mourners carry the body of Nader Rayan, 16, who
Britain / 24 March 2022
24 March 2022
UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories' report prompts fresh calls for Britain to cease trade with illegal settlements
People take part in the Stand Up to Racism march in central
Britain / 23 March 2022
23 March 2022
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a B
Britain / 23 March 2022
23 March 2022
Medicine San Frontiers hits out at the government's ‘unworkable, exorbitantly expensive and inhumane’ Bill
The Ashoori and Zaghari-Ratcliffe families reunited after An
Britain / 18 March 2022
18 March 2022
Aryan Ashoori tells the Star about the jubilant and surreal moment of being reunited with his father Anoosheh after five long years
Bahia Amawi, centre, speaks to a press conference. The Pales
Britain / 17 March 2022
17 March 2022
by Bethany Rielly, home affairs reporter
Daryl Dixon (left), an animal rights activist who was spied
Britain / 16 March 2022
16 March 2022
Animal rights activist Daryl Dixon speaks to the Star after discovering his friend in the 1980s was an undercover copper
People take part in a Million Women Rise march outside Chari
Britain / 10 March 2022
10 March 2022
Labour MPs Jess Phillips, Abena Oppong-Asare and Apsana Begum mark International Women’s Day in the Commons
Refugee puppet Little-Amal makes an appearance outside the U
Britain / 10 March 2022
10 March 2022
But rights groups warn the Home Secretary's measures still do not go far enough
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
Britain / 7 March 2022
7 March 2022