http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/28/hate-crimes-muslims-media-politicians
Media and politicians 'fuel rise in hate crimes against Muslims'
"Islamophobic, negative and unwarranted portrayals of Muslim London as Londonistan and Muslim Londoners as terrorists, sympathisers and subversives in sections of the media appear to provide the motivation for a significant number of anti-Muslim hate crimes,"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/black-prison-population-increase-england
More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US
Excess" of 145,000 stop and searches in 2008. It notes that black people constitute less than 3% of the population, yet made up 15% of people stopped by police.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/22/police-record-race-stop
Police forces cease recording race of people they stop
“Police forces with some of the worst records of targeting black people have decided to stop recording the ethnicity of the people their officers stop and ask to account for their movements”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/23/counter-terror-stop-search-minorities
Asian people 42 times more likely to be held under terror law
People from ethnic minorities more likely than white people to be stopped under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act
British Muslims have given written statements to the Guardian alleging that the police and the security service MI5 are abusing the power by holding people and pressing them into becoming spies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/08/teenager-stabbed-conker-steven-grisales
Teenager stabbed in same spot as conker-death student
North London : Steven Grisales was allegedly stabbed to death on Wednesday 31 August as he made his way to Silver Street railway station in Edmonton after running a shopping errand for his grandmother.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/26/northern-ireland-deaths-turkey-gatecrashed
Northern Ireland deaths in Turkey have 'gatecrashed' families' lives
Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore will be buried after requiem masses. They were stabbed to death near Izmir while on holiday last week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/21/leroy-james-murder-boy-charged
Schoolboy, 14, charged with murder of Leroy James (black boy)
The accused teenager was also charged with the possession of an offensive weapon and will appear at Enfield magistrates court on Monday.
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