Raheel Mohammed

I'm watching this event. A few thoughts - this may end up a thread.
I've worked in this space a long time and I could be watching this 20 years ago. David's points in particular are outdated - his point about "weak families" when referring to non-nuclear families is deeply disrespectful. 🧵#carers

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We’ll also be sharing a new publication centring the voices of those who have experienced prison

Government/charity/academic reports silence this form of knowledge-making as they lack proximity to our communities and lack the range of analysis needed to understand the depth of our experience

Really pleased to be working with BLMUK on a workshop at this year’s Festival of Collective Liberation.

The focus of our session is about building autonomous community infrastructure in response to the harms of the criminal legal system and long-term solutions to care for our communities.

There’s only one problem with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it."

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The Marketisation of UK prisons Surviving Society Productions · Episode

Join Raheel and Patrick in conversation

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director released from Israeli detention No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal released a day after he was attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli forces

“Lamia Ballal, the director’s wife, said she heard her husband being beaten outside their home as she huddled inside with their three children. She heard him screaming, “I’m dying!”

She saw three men in uniform beating Ballal with rifles and another person who appeared to be filming the attack.

Ex-BBC presenter exposes how the BBC gets you to care about Israeli victims, but not Palestinians.

This, from @karishmapatel.bsky.social, is so revealing.

If I was making a stupid claim about ignorance of British history I would at least bother to spell Brunel properly.

What Robert Jenrick fails to mention is that a Tory Govt asked David Lammy to look into the unequal treatment Black/brown communities receive in the criminal legal system
Sentencing decisions needed greater scrutiny, we were told, and Pre-Sentence reports were one way of countering unequal treatment

The data is clear on the unequal, racist treatment Black/brown communities face in the criminal legal system

Under a Tory Govt in 2016, the MOJ produced research showing the odds of a receiving a prison sentence for drug offences were 240% higher for “BAME” people compared to white counterparts

A pregnant woman who was unlawfully handcuffed to an officer for 48 hours during labour says “I feel I was treated as less than an animal.”

She's calling for an independent investigation into why this was allowed to happen – and she needs all our support.

Get involved: welevelup.org/inquiry/

How is existing practice, policy, and public narrative ensuring that hard-wired racism in our society is harming Black/brown children?

As part of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we highlight several interventions created with young people that are not generic approaches:
www.maslaha.org/Project/chil...

An image of members of the NEON staff team is surrounded by the words "NEON is hiring - Press Officer"

We're hiring someone for 6 months to work as a press officer on our Spokesperson Network project. It involves placing people in broadcast media on a regular basis, developing & maintaining media contacts and meeting the needs of participants on the programme.
Deadline is 16 Feb> lnkd.in/e4yBdDfs

We're examining Gendered Islamophobia at 2.20pm, Wednesday 15 January. Watch on Parliament Live.

How can Gendered Islamophobia be challenged?

What are the barriers to reporting Gendered Islamophobia?

Join us on 15 January at 2.20pm.

@muslimfeminist.bsky.social sky.social | @drirenezempi.bsky.social | @raheelmohammed.bsky.social

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All children and adult survivors of child sexual abuse deserve better than being treated as a political football.

This letter was from 2023, the need for responses to child sexual abuse to be survivor-centred, inclusive and evidence-based holds today.

Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians | CNN At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.

Horrified by every new detail that emerges from the Sednaya prison. But Syria is not alone in human rights abuses. Today, I'm also reflecting on reports of systemic torture and abuse of Palestinians inside Israel's Sde Teiman detention camp. Human rights accountability must transcend borders.

Spoke to Sky about mums going to prison and the way our legal system punishes individuals for failures in our social safety net.

♦️60% of women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse
♦️A third of women in prison grew up in care

Time to stop funding prisons and fund community services instead.