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The trial of a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in protest of the President of Turkey has just concluded. The man stood trial for racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm, or distress at Westminster Magistrates Court. The outcome is pending. Humanists UK has expressed concern that this might amount to… Read more »
Acclaimed political journalist and author Ian Dunt has been appointed as the Chair of the newly established Editorial Board for New Humanist magazine, following its merger with Humanists UK earlier this year. New Humanist, now in its 140th year of publication, became part of Humanists UK on 1 January this year in a merger that… Read more »
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Police officers who colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland will be “properly and rightly dealt with”, the prime minister has declared. This week’s police ombudsman’s report detailing how members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch protected paramilitary informers said prosecutions were unlikely because so much evidence had been destroyed. But Tony Blair… Read more »
Police officers in Northern Ireland protected their loyalist informants from investigations into ten murders in the 1990s, a damning new report has found. A three and a half year investigation by police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan finds collusion between certain officers with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Special Branch and an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) unit… Read more »
