Tag Archives: police

Ele Jane, Cardiff East Socialist Party Between 3 and 4 June, 19 protesters were arrested in Cardiff and Swansea in a brutal escalation of police response to the Palestine movement. A video shows eight police officers surrounding a disabled activist, and forcing his head down, before escorting him away. An emergency demonstration was called in response outside Cardiff Bay police ...

By Joe Fathallah On the night of Monday 22nd May, rioting broke out on the Ely estate in western Cardiff. This was in response to tragic deaths of two teenagers, Harvey Evans and Kyrees Sullivan, in a road accident, following a chase with a vehicle belonging to South Wales Police. Alun Michael, the Labour Police and Crime Commissioner, initially attempted to deny the ...

By Joe Fathallah The BBC Wales documentary ‘Death of Two Black Men: Police in the Spotlight’, shines a light on the horrific deaths of Mohamud Hassan and Mouayed Bashir, immediately after contact with South Wales Police. Mohamud Hassan, of Somali origin, was arrested at his home in Cardiff on 8 January 2021, and released without charge the following morning. His ...

By John Williams ‘A Killing in Tiger Bay’ is an in-depth, three-part documentary telling the story of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history – ‘the Cardiff Three’. These three men were falsely convicted of murder, although initially five men were charged, with two also spending time in jail. Lynette White was a Grangetown resident who ...

By Joe Fathallah Up to 300 people attended a demonstration in Cardiff city centre on Saturday April 10th, organised by Young Socialists Wales, in support of Siyanda Mngaza, an innocent black woman serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. In May 2019, Siyanda was brutally attacked whilst on a bank holiday weekend by a group of three people, two of them male ...

Hundreds of people have marched and rallied at Cardiff Bay police station to protest the death of Mohamud Muhammed Hassan shortly after being released from custody at the police station. Despite Covid restrictions inevitably inhibiting the turnouts, hundreds of working people from all over Cardiff have continued to assemble as carefully as possible at the police station, outraged at police brutality that ...

By Cammilla Mngaza Siyanda Mngaza is currently serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for defending herself against a racially motivated hate crime. Siyanda worked for the South Wales Fire Service in human resources – recruiting fire fighters. She had never been in trouble before. In May 2019, at a campsite in Brecon she was attacked, without provocation, by a family group ...