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Jan 22 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
#ImpunityEntrenched
🧵THREAD OF THREADS 🧵

This week, we published a 5-part series by @FrancesWebber5 examining the legislative & policy changes threatening human rights.

Follow the link to read each part & find a thread 🧵summary of each edition below👇
irr.org.uk/article/impuni…
On Monday, we started #ImpunityEntrenched with an analysis of borders and immigration policy, with a focus on the destructive Nationality & Borders Bill.
Tuesday's #ImpunityEntrenched looked at policing and the range of punitive and discriminatory measures contained in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill.
On Wednesday, we looked at what underlies these bills: attempts by the government to evade scrutiny and accountability, while curbing the judiciary and undermining the rule of law. #ImpunityEntrenched
Thursday's edition focused on the government's concerted attack on equalities, apparently in defence of 'free expression' and through its relentless 'war on woke'.
We concluded #ImpunityEntrenched with an analysis of what all this means for human rights and how the Justice secretary seeks to replace the Human Rights Act with a 'Modern Bill of Rights'
We published this series as a resource for researchers, activists, advocacy groups, politicians, campaigners and anyone concerned about the growing threat to human rights in the UK. Please share this resource and share your comments here or on our website
irr.org.uk/article/impuni…

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Jan 19
#ImpunityEntrenched 3
⚖️Ministerial Impunity & the rule of law

It’s not just specific bills that should worry us. This THREAD summarises what underlies them: attempts to evade scrutiny and accountability, while curbing the judiciary

Read the full piece⬇️
irr.org.uk/article/impuni…
Part 3 looks at how government ministers are undermining the rule of law by:

⚖ Breaching UK & International law
🧑‍⚖️ Political interference in the judiciary
🕵️‍♂️ Treating journalists like spies
🔒 Constraints on public bodies
🗳 Voter suppression

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In October, the Supreme Court ruled that the Home Office had acted unlawfully in imposing a prohibition on unpaid work on a migrant after a Tribunal judge had granted him bail to allow him to continue his voluntary work. @BIDdetention
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Jan 18
#ImpunityEntrenched Pt 2
🚔Police impunity: in & beyond the pandemic

As revelations of police racism, misogyny & brutality mounted in 2021, the government gave police more powers & protections.

This THREAD details key developments. Get the full picture👇
irr.org.uk/article/polici…
The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill is an enormous and wide-ranging piece of legislation with 179 clauses and 20 schedules.

Its sheer size and range impede proper scrutiny, as the House of Lords Constitution Committee (@HLConstitution) pointed out
committees.parliament.uk/publications/7…
As IRR Director Liz Fekete argues, the Bill not only privileges the police’s wellbeing & protection through the Police Covenant, but also establishes them as a commanding authority to which other public bodies are accountable. irr.org.uk/article/polici…
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Jan 17
OUT NOW: #ImpunityEntrenched Part 1
🛂 POLICING THE BORDERS

Is this the end of asylum?

The below THREAD 🧵 provides a summary of border and immigration legislation and policy introduced last year.

For the full analysis, read here ⬇️
irr.org.uk/article/polici…
The hostile reception for asylum seekers is extended to refugees in the Nationality & Borders Bill, which expands policies of exclusion, criminalisation and deportation. This thread will critique the bill and review other important developments from 2021
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The N&B Bill puts into legislation Patel’s New Plan for Immigration.

The public consultation on it received over 8,500 responses, 75% opposing.

Against normal practice, the government didn't publish these, and published the Bill before responding. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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Jan 5
THREAD 🧵

As the Nationality and Borders bill returns to the Lords today, a recap of how outrage has grown out of one of its many abhorrent aspects - clause 9 – which would allow ministers to revoke the citizenship of British nationals without notice on ‘public interest’ grounds
When the @NewStatesman reported that the clause could affect up to six million citizens who have or have access to a second citizenship, most from ethnic minorities, fear and anger erupted on social media, in the press, in parliament and in MPs’ constituency surgeries.
Activists and community groups have responded to raise the alarm, with over 300k signing a parliamentary petition to remove the clause. A protest led by @WritersofColour, @SCUKofficial, @MABOnline1 and others is planned for today outside parliament at 1pm
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Nov 17, 2021
🚨 NEW

Ministers will be able to strip British citizens of their citizenship without telling them, under the Nationality and Borders Bill.

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
The new clause allowing this was quietly added to the Bill in committee in the Commons, in October.

It is the most fundamental requirement of fairness that citizens are given notice of decisions that will affect them.
It’s hard to think of anything more drastic than losing your citizenship, which has been widely recognised as ‘the right to have rights’.
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Nov 17, 2021
#dropthecharges 🧵

@frhumanitarians volunteers @sean_binder_, @SarahMardini4 and Nassos Karakitsos go on trial in Lesvos tomorrow, Thursday 18 November for ‘espionage’.

They face up to 8 years in prison.
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Working to rescue refugees in the Aegean and as first responders onshore, they are accused for listening to coastguard radio and exchanging WhatsApp messages.
Arrested and held for 4 months in 2018 before getting bail, they are also accused of being in a criminal organisation & facilitating illegal entry, charges still being investigated.
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