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“Those who saw the video will not easily forget it,” said Rory Carroll in The Guardian. It showed an assailant sat astride his victim on a street in north Belfast, stabbing him in the face and neck, while shouting in Arabic. Passers-by intervened to help Stephen Ogilvie, who was badly…

“Outrageous, racist and thuggish behaviour has to be nipped in the bud,” a Belfast judge has said. Refusing to grant bail to an alleged rioter on Thursday, Mr Justice McAlinden warned that “this type of civil disorder and outrageous, racist and thuggish behaviour has to be nipped in the bud…

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A police cordon at the scene of the stabbing outside apartments in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast. Belfast attack An MLA has asked that people refrain from speculating on the victim’s condition in online posts. AN MLA HAS said that the family of Stephen Ogilvie, the man who…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re broadcasting from Northern Visions TV, community television here in Belfast. We’re here in Belfast for the Docs Ireland film festival. The…

Demonstrators at an anti-racism march in Dublin on Sunday were told immigrant groups are frightened by the growth of racist rhetoric in Irish society. “In the moments we keep quiet, racism grows,” one speaker said. The United Against Racism march, which moved from the GPO on O’Connell Street to the…

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Belfast on Saturday to denounce anti-immigrant rioters who set fire to homes and cars earlier in the week after a brutal stabbing blamed on an asylum seeker. The anti-racism rally came after nights of fiery violence in parts of Northern Ireland following the arrest of…

Thousands of people have attended an anti-racism rally in Belfast following days of unrest provoked by a knife attack. Organised by the Unite Against Racism organisation, the Together Against Hate rally took place outside Belfast City Hall. It follows days of violent demonstrations held across the city in the wake…

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When a Belfast man went to check his house was safe after rioters set fire to a hijacked bus on Tuesday night, a masked mob threatened him. “They thought I was a foreigner. They said I was a Paki bastard but I’m from here, I grew up here,” says the…