Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi is a reporter, editor & writer. Co-edits Shine a Light. Writer in residence for Lacuna magazine. Twice shortlisted for Orwell Prize. Winner of Scottish Refuge Council media award and Write to End Violence Against Women award. Tweets @Rebecca_Omonira
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never againThe terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK immigration detention: the truth is outSuccessive governments have ignored and dismissed complaints of suffering in UK immigration lock-ups. This week, in...
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Published in: Shine A LightBlack and dangerous? Listening to patients’ experiences of mental health services in LondonWhy are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained...
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Published in: Shine A LightDown the rabbit hole: Single parenthood in austerity BritainLast Summer we published a piece about the lives of lone parents that provoked an extraordinary response. One parent...
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Published in: Shine A LightRats in the lunchbox, mould in the mattress: living in squalor in LondonIn three decades a social welfare advisor has not seen the levels of poverty that are routine today. Rebecca...
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Published in: Shine A LightKeeping alive the spirit of Greenham CommonAs Britain commemorates the First World War a writer seeks out and listens to some of the women who created...