Articles by Jerome Taylor

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Hundreds of Refugees Sent Back to Sri Lanka to Face Torture
Jerome Taylor – The Independent, 17 Sep 2012

14 Sep 2012 – The Government is planning to forcibly remove hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers next week despite mounting evidence that many are tortured on their return. The Independent has learnt that the Border and Immigration Agency has commissioned as many as three separate charter flights to remove more than 300 people next week. Returning Tamils would find themselves interrogated and tortured for information.

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Men Rescued From Squalid Forced Labour Camp Refuse to Help Police
Jerome Taylor – The Independent, 19 Sep 2011

Nine “modern day slaves” who were freed by police over the weekend have refused to co-operate with the investigation in one of the worst cases of forced labour in modern British history. Experts said it was often common for victims to empathise with their abusers. “We can’t prejudge what has happened here,” said Paul Donohoe, of Anti-Slavery International. “But you do find sometimes that institutionalisation… creates a situation where captives psychologically identify with their captors.”

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Tragedy Is Ignored Because the Victims Are Not White
Jerome Taylor – The Independent, 16 May 2011

The Italian and Maltese coastguards were working around the clock to try rescuing those vessels they knew to be in distress. One rescue official I spoke to told me how even heavily pregnant women were arriving on the boats. One had given birth on the way over. Although some dramatic rescues take place, many more boats simply sink in an ocean that is teeming with European vessels providing support for the NATO-led assault on Libya.

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How Lukashenko’s Soviet-Style Regime Maintains Its Iron Grip
Jerome Taylor – The Independent, 14 Mar 2011

Alexander Lukashenko rules Europe’s last dictatorship with a vice-like grip that has tolerated little opposition for the past 16 years. When democratic revolutions swept through the former Soviet republics of Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, Belarus steadfastly took a different path. In many ways the country mimicked the Soviets states of central Asia, where local strongmen seized power and crushed any democratic opposition to create brutal police states dominated by bizarre personality cults.

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The US Bank and the Secret Plan to Destroy WikiLeaks
Jerome Taylor – The Independent, 21 Feb 2011

The computer hackers’ collective Anonymous has uncovered a proposal by a consortium of private contractors to attack and discredit WikiLeaks. Last week Anonymous volunteers broke into the servers of HB Gary Federal, a security company that sells investigative services to companies, and posted thousands of the firm’s emails on to the internet.

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THE WORLD’S WORST RADIATION HOTSPOT
Jerome Taylor, in Kurchatov, 10 Sep 2009

At the start of the Cold War, Stalin chose one of the furthest outposts of his empire to test the Soviet Union’s first nuclear bombs. Sixty years on, their cancerous legacy is still being felt. Walking through the flat and endless Kazakh steppe, Nemytov Oleg suddenly stops, fumbles in his desert camouflage trousers and pulls […]

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