Deaths in custody
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In European countries and European colonies and former colonies there is a disproportionately high number of working class and black people who are imprisoned and of those, a disproportionate number who die while in custody.
In Britain the Macpherson Report AKA the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry showed that the British police were institutionally racist, and made a total of 70 recommendations for reform in his report dated February 24, 1999.
Macpherson also called for reform in the British Civil Service, local government, the British National Health Service, Schools and the judicial system to address issues of institutional racism.
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[edit] Australia
See separate article: Aboriginal deaths in custody
[edit] USA
Almost 100 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, according to U.S. group Human Rights First. They include:
[edit] U.S. occupied Afghanistan
[edit] U.S. occupied Iraq
[edit] Punjab
[edit] England
- Nuur Saeed 2005 at Plumstead Police Station
- Ricky Bishop 2001 at Brixton Police Station
- Roger Sylvester
- Derek Bennett
- Mikey Powell
- Wayne Douglas
- Brain Douglas
- Paul Coker
- Harry Stanley
- Frank Ogboru (died 2006-09-26 during arrest in London) [1]
[edit] Refugee deaths in detention centres
- Bereket Yohannes 2006 at Harmondsworth Detention Centre
- Manuel Bravo
- Ramazan Kumluca
- Kenny Peter
- Tran Quang Tung
- Sergey Barnuyck 2004 at Harmondsworth Detention Centre
- Mikhail Bognarchuk
- Robertas Grabys
- Abiy Fessfha Abebe
see also:
[edit] Germany
[edit] Jamaica
"At least 650 people have been killed by police officers in Jamaica since 1999. Many of these have been blatantly unlawful killings, yet not one officer has been convicted since then." Piers Bannister, Amnesty International’s Jamaica researcher.
[edit] Bangladesh
At least 32 people have died in "Operation Clean Heart" by the government of Bangladesh.
[edit] References
- ^ Laura, Smith, Agencies. "Investigation launched as man dies during arrest", The Guardian, 2006-09-28. Retrieved on 2006-10-06.
