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Edinburgh Criminal Justice Services continue to cover up their treatment of John Bowden!

Please write letters of complaint Edinburgh Criminal Justice Services, or what used to be know as the plain Social Work Department, has seriously compromised its professional integrity by defending a member of its staff who deliberately told lies in a … Continue reading

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John Bowden asks for letters and support…

Recently John Bowden has been having trouble with a social worker, Brandon Barnett, lying about him in reports to the Parole Board. You can find background to this on Leeds ABCs page here and a later update here. John has … Continue reading

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Mass Palestinian hunger strike ended when an agreement was reached…

Taken from www.addameer.org Ramallah, 15 May 2012 – After nearly a full month of fasting, around 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended last night their mass hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to attain certain … Continue reading

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Mandy Hiscocks Statement to the Court

Mandy Hiscocks is one of the so-called “Main G20 Conspiracy Group” in Canada. She is currently serving her sentence for “counseling to commit mischief and counseling to obstruct police” in the Vanier Institute for Women and expects to spend most of … Continue reading

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Ravinder Gill Released!

The last of the 6 anti-fascist who were jailed in June was released this morning from Wayland Prison in Norfolk. For more information on the case see here. Good luck Ravi!

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Palestinian hunger strikers petitions rejected

Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab were yesterday petitioning the Israeli High Court to end their administrative detention orders early as both men, after 70 days of hunger striking, are at risk of death and being apparently denied medical attention. Their … Continue reading

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Is the Parole Board deciding on the continued detention of life sentence prisoners before their hearings?

Periodically reviewing life sentences by the Parole Board is a process required by law and such reviews, known as Tribunals, are intended to assess the current level of risk presented by life-sentence prisoners at the expiry of Tariff point of … Continue reading

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The English riots…

It is not for London ABC to comment on what happened in London and around the country last week, but we are currently in the process of organising prisoner support for people that have been remanded or sentenced to jail … Continue reading

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This blog is a work in progress

Obviously, this blog is currently under construction as is the London ABC collective. If you wanna get involved or would like to help with anything please get in touch london_abc@riseup.net

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