Week 9: Asylum seekers and the policing of protest

Instead of a blog post this week, here are a few links.

First, here's the Panorama programme from 2009 which I showed in the seminars. If you didn't manage to get to a seminar, it's well worth a look.

Panorama -" whatever happened to people power " from adrian arbib on Vimeo.

And a response to some claims made in that programme:



Here's a recent news story about an inquiry into how asylum seekers are treated:
The UK is failing in its duty to protect vulnerable asylum seekers. And here's what you get if you search for 'asylum' in the Daily Mail. Spot the difference.

And here's another video for you.