AN INQUIRY has been launched into the death of a young west African refugee who was allegedly handcuffed and in leg irons when a cushion was used to silence her screams as 11 Belgian police attempted to deport her.
www.independent.co.uk
Case details of nine deaths during forced deportations in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, France, Austria and the United Kingdom. The right to life, and the right to dignity – not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, are recognised as the most fundamental of all human...
irr.org.uk
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Case details: Deportation police from the SO1(3) squad arrived at the north London home of Joy Gardner in the early hours of the morning of 8 July 1993. In front of her 5-year-old son, they held her down to stop her struggling and placed a body belt around her waist, bound her wrists to handcuffs attached to a belt and tied her thighs and ankles with leather belts. They then wrapped 13 feet of tape around her mouth to stop her screaming. She was taken to hospital in a coma from which she never recovered."
And of course the murder of Jimmy Mubenga
A man being deported to Angola was unlawfully killed on a British Airways flight when security guards restrained him, an inquest jury finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
It takes a special kind of person to believe vengeance is justice. 'Reasonable' eh?
I wonder what the news and social media will whip a certain number of people into a frenzy over next.