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Article: United Kingdom -- Accountability and transparency needed to fight deaths in police custody.
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- M2 Presswire
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- May 18, 2000
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M2 PRESSWIRE-18 May 2000-AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: United Kingdom -- Accountability and transparency needed to fight deaths in police custody (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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11 January 1999: Roger Sylvester, a 30-year-old black man, collapsed after being forcefully restrained by eight police officers who handcuffed him"for his own safety". He was declared clinically dead a week later.
22 September 1999: Harry Stanley, a 46-year-old Scottish decorator, was shot dead by police after they received a phone call in which the caller mistakenly reported his accent as an Irish one, and the two-foot table leg he was carrying in his ...