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Liberty Investigates, founded in 2019, is a small dedicated team of investigative journalists publishing in-depth human rights stories in the UK, particularly with respect to migrants and policing. It spent two years examining the maltreatment and death of asylum seekers in Home Office care and exposed how more than 100 had died since 2016, including…
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There are a number of Bills currently before Parliament with the potential to breach fundamental human rights. None have yet been finalised but we draw attention to them so that you can, where and when possible, take action. It is, for example, likely that the Bill of Rights – which we have featured in many…
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We held our first Amnesty Talk for more than two years on Zoom on 29 November and were delighted that 25 people attended, despite England playing Wales in the football World Cup at the same time! It was an instructive, enlightening and thought-provoking talk. Professor Murphy asked, ‘can taxation contribute to a fairer society’? The…
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