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Rajeev Syal

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Senior Reporter at The Guardian

I cover home affairs for the Guardian. If you have a potential story: [email protected]

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  • Palestine Action ‘to be banned’ after vandalising planes at RAF base

    1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Rajeev Syal |Dan Sabbagh

    Palestine Action said it had targeted aircraft used for transport and refuelling, and that activists have interrupted Britain’s participation in war crimes. Palestine Action said it had targeted aircraft used for transport and refuelling, and that activists have interrupted Britain’s participation in war crimes.

  • Palestine Action ‘to be banned’ after vandalising planes at RAF base

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Dan Sabbagh

    The pro-Palestine group that broke into RAF Brize Norton sparking a major security review is expected to be banned by the government next week in a move which will anger campaigners. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, is planning to proscribe Palestine Action, effectively branding it a terrorist organisation. She is preparing a written ministerial statement which will be placed before Parliament on Monday, a Whitehall source confirmed. It will then need to be enacted through new legislation.

  • French plans to stop small boats will lead to more deaths, says charity

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal

    Plans by French police to enter the sea to stop small boats carrying UK-bound asylum seekers willcause more deaths and will be challenged in the European courts, a French charity has said. Arthur Dos Santos, the coordinator of the refugee charity Utopia 56, said there would be an increase in the number of people who would take “desperate” measures to reach the UK.

  • Pepper spray use in youth prisons irresponsible amid racial disparities, watchdog warns

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal

    The rollout of synthetic pepper spray for use to incapacitate jailed children is “wholly irresponsible” while black and minority prisoners are more likely to be subjected to force than white inmates, a watchdog has said.

  • Public must ‘keep calm’ over ethnicity of grooming gang offenders, says Louise Casey

    1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal

    The public must “keep calm” over the ethnicity of grooming gang offenders, the author of a high-profile report has urged, saying police data from one region suggested race was proportional with the local population. The comments from Louise Casey came as Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, defended herself from claims that she was attempting to politicise the scandal of the organised rape of girls by men across dozens of towns over at least 25 years.

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