UK News from OneWorld UK

29.02.2004 Tony Blair could face further embarrassment in less than a fortnight when fourteen Greenpeace protestors appear in court on charges relating to an anti-war protest. Their case has taken on great significance following the collapse of the case against whistle-blower Katherine Gun, whose defence that her actions were justified to save lives could not be countered.

27.02.2004 The Commission for Africa launched by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and backed by the rock star Bob Geldof must not be another talking shop, says CAFOD.

27.02.2004 More than £2 million of humanitarian donations to the charity Sewa International have been sent to fascist-inspired '"indutva" groups that are involved in anti-minority violence in India, a recent report claims.

26.02.2004 The UK and other European Union members are not fully implementing the EU asset freeze on the Burmese regime. As a result total frozen assets could amount to a meagre £57.

26.02.2004 South Africa last night emerged as the second country with which the Home Office has started talks to take failed asylum seekers from Britain as part of a concerted drive to step up immigration removals and deportations.

25.02.2004 A major loophole in Britain’s arms export controls is allowing manufacturers to sell weapons components to countries where they could ultimately be used to violate human rights, reveals a report released today by the Control Arms Campaign.

24.02.2004 As the UK Houses of Parliament prepare to debate and renew part 4 of the Anti-terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001 this week, Amnesty International has stepped up its lobbying of the government, urging them to repeal these controversial and abusive provisions.

23.02.2004 The home secretary, David Blunkett, yesterday came under last-minute pressure not to succumb to an anti-immigrant backlash by heavily restricting benefits to jobseekers from the enlarged EU.

20.02.2004 Five of the nine UK detainees held at Guantánamo Bay are to be released, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said. Concern remains high for the four who remain, particularly those who may face trail by military commission.

19.02.2004 The NHS, and especially its mental health services, have been branded institutionally racist by an inquiry team set up to examine the care and treatment that 38-year-old Rocky Bennett received at the Norvic secure psychiatric clinic in Norwich before he died, in October 1998, after being restrained by up to five nurses.