Genocide is:


any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II






"In both Australia and the UK, governments have traditionally used the over-representation of ethnic minorities in the criminal justice system as a means of rationalising the high incidence of Aboriginal/black deaths in custody. This line of rationalisation was reflected, for example, in the 1998 Home Office study on deaths in custody in the UK. By contrast, the Royal Commission in Australia not only concluded that Aboriginal people are more likely to die in custody because they are over-represented in custody, but went on from this to link such over-representation to the disadvantaged and unequal position in which Aboriginal people find themselves in the society—socially, economically and culturally. In the UK, there has never been such official recognition of the need to reduce the incidence of black arrests and imprisonment as a means to addressing the issue of black deaths in custody. "

Joint Committee On Human Rights - Written Evidence


"In 2007 alone black and minority ethnic deaths made up 25 per cent of self-inflicted deaths, and 19 per cent of all deaths in prison. INQUEST has been involved in supporting the families in a high number of cases of black deaths in custody such as the restraint-related deaths of Roger Sylvester, Rocky Bennett and more recently Sean Rigg."

"Inquest say that black deaths in custody must be seen in the context of the disproportionate overuse of prison for black people, the plight of immigration detainees, the treatment they receive and the overuse of control and restraint techniques and segregation."


Black Mental Health UK - Godfrey Moyo inquest highlights the growing numbers of black deaths in custody



Unemployment rates of men [2007] by ethnic group: Black Caribbean - 14%, Black African - 13%, White British - 4%

Statistics by topic - Ministry of Justice



"Offences committed by Black young offenders were more likely to receive a custodial sentence when compared to offences committed by the other ethnic groups."

"For British Nationals [in 2008], the proportion of Black prisoners relative to the population was 6.8 per 1,000 population compared to 1.3 per 1,000 for White persons."

The Terrorism Act 2000 provides further powers to carry out stop and searches. Section 44 (1) and (2) of the Act allows officers, when given authorisation:

To stop and search vehicles, people in vehicles and pedestrians for articles that could be used for terrorism whether or not there are grounds for suspecting that such articles are present.

"A total of 117,278 searches of people were made under section 44 (1) and 44 (2) of the Terrorism Act 2000 in 2007/08 compared with 37,197 in 2006/07 and represents an increase of 215% (Table 4.6). Just under a fifth (19%) of police force areas did not record any use of this power in 2007/08. Searches increased for all ethnic groups but the biggest rise was for Black people (322%), followed by those in the Asian group (277%), those in the Other category (262%), and lastly White people (185%)."

http://www.justice.gov.uk/stats-race...08-revised.pdf