Wig ban reversed, summer riots, justice served for Stockwell Six member and more stories from Black, Asian and Arab communities you shouldn't have missed this week - curated by Melissa Sigodo

Summer riots becoming the norm.

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I am going to keep it brief today and get right to the news you shouldn’t have missed but firstly, I just wanted to touch on something important.

This week, we saw “anti-immigration protests” outside a hotel housing asylum seeker which unsurprisingly descended into violence against staff and police. I’ve recapped this in the newsletter. Sadly, this is starting to become the norm in Britain, and it doesn’t appear that there is much being done to combat it. With that being said, I hope this newsletter serves as a beacon of truth against the lies which are spewed in order to try and paint ethnic minority communities with one brush.

Please stay safe, look after yourselves and each other, and most of all, thank you for supporting this work.

Without further ado, here are the stories you shouldn’t have missed this week

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News

A father who couldn’t swim says he almost drowned after instinctively jumping into dangerous water to save his daughter and her friends at a popular beauty spot. Safraz Hussain who was rescued at River Wharfe in Yorkshire says he is ‘lucky to be alive.’ Fortunately, a man who spotted the girls in danger was able to save them. Read the full story by Rowan Newman at Asian Image.

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Tributes have been paid to two British citizens who died while on holiday in Portugal. The bodies of friends King Edonmi, 29, and Mo, 27, were discovered in a hotel pool. Reports suggest they drowned but their cause of death is to be determined. Read the full story by ITV.

Legal

A man wrongfully convicted in a racist miscarriage of justice has had his name cleared more than 50 years later. Ronald De Souza was one of six Black men who became known as the Stockwell Six and were falsely accused of attempting to rob a corrupt British Transport Police officer Sergeant Derek Ridgewell. Read the full story by Holly Evans at The Independent.

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Ministers have been urged to protect whistleblowers who reveal employers not following upcoming diversity, equity and inclusion laws. The new laws will require companies to report whether their white and non-disabled staff are paid more that ethnic minority and disabled staff. Read the full story by Chris Osuh at The Guardian.

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A man who committed a series of racist hate crimes by releasing rats near a mosque has avoided jail. On four different occasions, Edmund Fowler, 66, took ‘wild rodents’ to Sheffield Grand Mosques. He also hurled racist abuse at those entering the mosque. Read the full story by Martin Fisher at ITV.

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A man accused of assaulting police officers who approached him at Manchester Airport has told a jury he thought one of them would kill him. Mohammed Amaaz, 20, told the court the person who “grabbed him did not identify themselves or explain why they were doing so.” Read the full story by Andy Gill and Sarah Spina-Matthews at BBC.

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The Windrush exhibition showcasing portraits of the Windrush generation has been vandalised again for the second time. The Metropolitan Police has released an image of a man they would like to speak to and they do not believe it to be linked to the first incident of vandalism where a 24-year-old man was arrested and has been bailed. They say that they will not be releasing CCTV of the first incident. Read the press release.

Windrush scandal

The recently appointed Windrush Commissioner, Reverend Clive Foster, has said that despite calls from victims of the Windrush scandal for the Home Office to be stripped of the compensation scheme, it should remain in the government’s hands. Watch the report by Ayshah Tull at Channel 4.

Charity

Two UK charities have “transferred millions of pounds” to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Former Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi said it was “appalling” for any British national to be “funding illegal settlements on occupied land.” Read the full story by Haroon Siddique at The Guardian.

Televsion and Entertainment

TV chef and Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has claimed she was dropped by the BBC because she became "of no use" and that she wasn’t given a ‘definitive reason’ why her show wasn’t being recommissioned. Read the full story by Cover Media on Yahoo News.

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Masterchef presenter John Torode has been sacked after allegedly using the N-word in 2019 while singing along to the song Gold Digger by Kanye West. Prior to being fired, the 59-year-old had nine complaints against him, including allegedly using racist language in other instances as well as abusive and sexual language to junior staff. Only one complaint was upheld. Read the full story by Noor Nanji at BBC.