NORTH MACEDONIA’S SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST ROMA

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 1312, Andiras Redjepov, Bekim Demir, court, ERRC, featured, Jusinov Erdal, long read, macedonia, Nevzat Jasharov, police, politics, racism, Roma, sentence, Skopje, Stanislav Tomas, Sutkie Mustafova, torture, Trajan Bekirov, trial.

by Jonathan Lee

CW: violence, police brutality

On Saturday 3^rd July 2021, Romani man Nevzat Jasharov (pictured above) marched through the streets of Skopje, North Macedonia with his fellow Romani citizens against racialised police brutality. The protest was in response to the death of a Czech Romani man, Stanislav Tomas, who died after police intervention in the Czech town of Teplice. Video footage of the incident showed a police officer kneeling on the back of Stanislav’s neck; scenes disturbingly reminiscent of the police killing of Black American George Floyd in June 2020.

PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: COMPULSORY DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT ANTI-SEMITISM

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Addameer, anti-semitism, Apartheid, Arabic, arrest, B’Tselem, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, British, detention, discrimination, featured, Gaza, hebrew, human rights, IHRA, IOF, israel, Jeremy Cobryn, Jewish Voice for Peace, language, law, Nablus, occupation, palestine, racism, testimony, torture, UN, witness.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: torture

May 2017 saw Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli detention uniting to take part in a hunger strike. Every Friday during the strike, street protests were held in solidarity and various other events took place under the motto ‘salt and water’. Some of my friends from Nablus, viewing horses as inextricable from ‘non-horsey’ aspects of life (their lives are absorbed by riding horses; taking selfies with horses; racing horses; breeding horses; bathing horses…) demonstrated solidarity non-violently by riding their horses into Nablus city centre, carrying Palestinian flags and calling for solidarity with the prisoners.Continue Reading

PRISONS BECOMING A DEATH-SENTENCE FOR ROMA

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged AGFD, Andrias Redjepov, Asociación Gitanas Feministas por la Diversidad, Asturias-Villabona Penitentiary Center, authority, Bekim Demir, discrimination, ERRC, ethnic minority, ethnic profiling, ethnic slurs, Europe, European Roma Rights Centre, featured, Gonzalo Montoya, healthcare, Idrizovo Prison, inequality, International Roma Day, isolation, Jusinov Erdal, Manuel Fernandez, mental health, Murcia Regional Government, overdose, prison, Protocol for Suicide Prevention in Prison, racism, Roma, Romani, Romani Feminism NGO, Shtip prison, Skopje, spain, suicide prevention, targeting, torture.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: article contains strong language, ethnic slurs, and graphic descriptions of death, suicide, prison environments and torture.

On April 9th 2018, the day after International Roma Day, a crowd gathered outside the doors of the Murcia Regional Government building in Alicante, Spain. They were not there to celebrate, but to mourn and demonstrate about the unexplained death of twenty-eight-year-old Romani man, Manuel Fernández, on 22nd October 2017. His case is one of many unexplained deaths of Roma in prison.Continue Reading

CHECHNYA: NORWICH PRIDE, SOLIDARITY, ACTIONS

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged action, Amnesty International, arrest, bisexual, camp, Chechnya, demonstration, erasure, gay, Gay Russia, Grindr, homosexuality, Hornet, Igor Yasin, imprisonment, lgbtQ+, Matthew Rycroft, Nikki Haley, norwich, norwich pride, petition, police, pride, prison, prisoner, protest, queer, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia, Russian Embassy, solidarity, theresa may, torture, united nations, violence.

by Cherry Somersby

This week, Norwich Pride held an emergency demonstration outside City Hall to protest a new wave of abductions, imprisonment, and killing of LGBTQ+ people in Chechnya. Over 50 people gathered on the steps of City Hall to hear speeches from local activists, and to show solidarity with LGBTQ+ people in Chechnya. These acts of solidarity are vital, and it has been encouraging to see similar displays across the country, but our actions must go beyond this.Continue Reading

REVIEW – CORDOBA’S INQUISITION MUSEUM

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged arts, cordoba, culture, East End, education, Europe, gallery, history, information, inquisition, Jack the Ripper, Juderia quarter, misogyny, museum, review, sexualisation, society, spain, torture, travel, UNESCO, violence, women.

by Carmina Masoliver

CW: Torture.

Since the reign of Al-Hakam II, who ruled from 961 to 976, Córdoba has been considered a centre for education after a plethora of libraries and universities were opened. Just recently, a new statue was erected in the city centre, which is full of beautiful statues, making an already picturesque city even more so. This particular one seems another symbol for education – with a woman holding open a newspaper. As a language teacher, it’s also a little-known fact that Córdoba has one of the highest concentrations of language schools.

Córdoba is also the largest urban area declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the main attractions is the Mesquita, the Mosque-Cathedral. I found out about the city’s rich history from a free walking tour, where we stood outside the building. But I was able to go inside for free, deciding to wake up early one morning. Having just come to Spain after travelling in South East Asia, I was reminded of the grandness of such places of worship.Continue Reading

FLOGGING FOR BLOGGING: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged activism, activist, Amnesty, Amnesty International, blog, blogger, blogging, CIA, flogging, Guantanamo, human rights, international, Islam, norwich, Raif Badawi, Shaker Aamer, torture, UEA, uk, US.

by Faizal Nor Izham

With the world’s media spotlight being thrust on ISIS, the UK General Election, and the Ukraine, one major issue being overlooked by many is that of modern-day torture. And yet, despite its relatively lesser coverage, the issue is just as relevant as ever in many parts of the world today.

To highlight this matter, Amnesty International UEA will be holding its Stop Torture Vigil at The Square, University of East Anglia. The event will be held March 20, 2015 (Week 10) at 7:30pm, as part of Amnesty’s Human Rights Week which is campaigning to stop torture globally. They have previously campaigned to raise awareness on Saudi Arabian activist Raif Badawi, as well as British Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer.

By now, you may have heard of the plight of Raif Badawi — Saudi Arabian writer, activist and creator of controversial website Free Saudi Liberals, which was envisaged as a forum for political and social debate. His case has been covered extensively in recent months by The Guardian, CNN, and The New Statesman.Continue Reading

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NORTH MACEDONIA’S SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST ROMA

by Jonathan Lee

PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: COMPULSORY DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT ANTI-SEMITISM

PRISONS BECOMING A DEATH-SENTENCE FOR ROMA

CHECHNYA: NORWICH PRIDE, SOLIDARITY, ACTIONS

REVIEW – CORDOBA’S INQUISITION MUSEUM

FLOGGING FOR BLOGGING: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

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