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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 4d

Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century: 411 in E&W in the year to Sept.
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."

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Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century, figures show

There were 411 deaths recorded in the year to September, the highest in a 12-month period since 2000.

www.independent.co.uk

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 8d

Please repost
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed

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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A

Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 12d

@europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social @david-whyte.bsky.social

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 12d

Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social

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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A

Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state

www.eventbrite.com

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 12d

Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...

CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A

Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state

www.eventbrite.com

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 18d

Bereaved families lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones who have died in state custody - Sat 25 Oct, 2025, 12pm, Trafalgar Square @inquest-org.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social

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Bereaved families to lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones killed in state custody

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 18d

@dmachover.bsky.social "It appears that the only voices that count are those of police officers who seem unable to accept the need to be held fully accountable for their use of force.”
@inquest-org.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social

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INQUEST responds to Home Office proposals which further undermine police accountability

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 18d

@debcoles13.bsky.social “These new measures undermine the rule of law & the way it applies to police officers, increasing impunity & injustice. All the evidence shows that what is needed is exactly the opposite"
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social

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INQUEST responds to Home Office proposals which further undermine police accountability

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Russell Chalk streams in crisis @russellb1ggs.bsky.social · 25d

Another similar situation developing on the Long Pond in King’s Lynn Water level so low that🐟are in distress & Phosphate/Ammonia very high

Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 26d

'Compelling, thought-provoking and beautifully written, "How Technologies Harm" is a must-read for anyone who, across disciplines, has an interest in the technology-harm nexus.' - Anita Lavorgna, University of Bologna

How Technologies Harm

How Technologies Harm - A Relational Approach; With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human…

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 27d

Paramilitary backed far-right, white supremacist violence, intimidation and pogroms in East Belfast have impacted thousands with no political attention or strategy to end it. Only silence and the handing down of impunity.

Who does the state protect?

Headlines in 16 months from East Belfast. Each describing white supremacist far right attacks on people and homes.

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 29d

On Wednesday the lawyers representing those targeted by spycops get to speak, starting with Imran Khan KC, on behalf of the Blacklist Support Group, Doreen Lawrence, Suresh Grover and Michael Mansfield KC. Followed by lawyers from more non-state core participants.

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 29d

Finally, blacklisted union members, the Lawrence family, Sukhdev Reel, women activists spied on by the police, & the undercover police deployed during the late 1990s and early 2000s will all be giving evidence during this tranche of the inquiry @blcklstd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...

Blacklisted

YouTube video by ReelNews

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 29d

Finally, blacklisted union members, the Lawrence family, Sukhdev Reel, women activists spied on by the police, & the undercover police deployed during the late 1990s and early 2000s will all be giving evidence during this tranche of the inquiry @blcklstd.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNcg...

Blacklisted

YouTube video by ReelNews

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Oct 10

We highly recommend this: www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Free Palestine!

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Oct 8

Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
@pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social

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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Oct 3

Trump’s “Peace plan” = ultimatum =
Genocide on steroids
news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Trump sets new deadline for Hamas to agree Gaza deal with Israel - or face 'all hell'

Hamas officials say they are still having "intensive discussions" about the 20-point plan.

news.sky.com

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Oct 3

"Thousands of people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government to help them get it"
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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Thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards - TBIJ report

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · Oct 2

🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.

Por Mar Sala.

Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · Oct 2

It would just be nice if I could come into work once and find the accessible bathroom on my floor in working order? I know this is ludicrous of course but a girl can dream.

Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · Sep 29

Arrested/not arrested:

The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · Sep 28

❝ The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation ❞

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why ...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 16

@debcoles13.bsky.social "We must now ensure the Hillsborough Law is delivered in full & those with vested interests to oppose it are resisted" @inquest-org.bsky.social @grenfellunited.bsky.social @cbffjuk.bsky.social @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social
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UNDER EMBARGO: A win for families: Government finally introduces Hillsborough Law to Parliament

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 15

News from @ccccjustice.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @greencrim.bsky.social
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Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice Newsletter

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · Sep 9

❌ Disabilities don’t start at 9:30am, so neither should disabled bus passes.

🚍 Tomorrow Parliament will debate my amendment, backed by 50+ cross-party MPs, to scrap the 9:30am restriction on disabled bus passes.

✉️ Contact your MP and ask them to support NC2 to the Bus Bill.

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...

View of Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people

ojs.aut.ac.nz

Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 6

Police appear to want to get disabled protesters "out of the way" first, one of a number arrested early

Wheelchair user arrested in Parliament Square

Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Sep 5

"LET'S TAKE THE STREETS BACK
Scotland-wide day of action and anti-racist rallies"
via Stand Up To Racism Scotland

The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was such an incredible pleasure to see you all at the Group’s conference in Malmö. A true abolitionist earthquake, a space to flourish, think, organise, conspire and act against the global punitive culture! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just reading ‘Nuclear War’ by Annie Jacobsen. The apocalypse described in granular detail …

Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

... while campaigns against all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal regime continues ...
bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Agai...
@europeangroup.bsky.social

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well, better late than never. Now, how about UK government (and others) stop ALL - and other - exports, instead of wringing their hands about the terrible situation etc? @pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social

www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...

Weekly Update 3 September | $2tr decision: Norway fund divests from Caterpillar over OPT demolitions - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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