Come and hear more about Nisha and my research into the origins of majority verdicts in England and Wales ⬇️

🗓️May 8th, 6-8pm, City University Law School

Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/doubt-dismis…

🆕 Groundbreaking research in R&C reveals racist & classist intent behind change to english jury system.

Majority Jury Verdicts in England & Wales: A Vestige of White Supremacy? by APPEAL's Nisha & Naima Sakande reported on today🧵⤵️

theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/2…

I’m supporting Clean Break, to provide a safe space and transformative support for women with lived experience of the criminal justice system, empowering them to unlock their potential.
Please donate today and your gift will be doubled!
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Our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge campaign is officially open! 🎉

From today until 12pm on 5 December, every £1 donated to Clean Break will be doubled. Please consider making a gift of any size to help sustain our lifechanging work. Thank you!

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Our client Andy Malkinson, who spent more than 17 years in prison maintaining his innocence, is at last given the chance to clear his name.

A huge but long overdue step on the path to justice for Andy.

Absolutely *disgusted* that Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office would make such a horrendous decision as Afghanistan falls to Taliban rule.

We can’t even honour the smallest of our promises to Afghans, and choose to abandon these bright students, including women who may never be able to study again.

And to Emma Torr and Naima Sakande who says: 'The authorities couldn't assure Jennifer she would be protected and it is a damning indictment of our system that prison was the first time she felt able to tell the truth.' APPEAL

'All he would need to do was a look or a movement and I knew…I had to be careful'.

Jennifer couldn't tell the truth when accused of injuring her baby because of the coervice control of her abusive partner. Now, we're supporting her to clear her name.

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APPEAL's Naima Sakande will be joining ​other speakers ​at Women's Equality Party conference. Don’t miss ‘​Prison abolition is a feminist struggle’ ​on Friday 16th October at 2pm​! ​Get your tickets now:bit.ly/WEPconf2020​ #WEPConf2020 #WIP_live

Listen to Naima Sakande talking this time last year with PrisonPhilanthropist on One Small Thing #JUSTICE podcast about why this change is so needed and important - particularly for women disproportionately affected by debt criminlisation

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APPEAL's women's justice advocate Naima on the Cambridge Women in Law panel talking about her Griffins Society report on the barriers faced by women seeking to overturn unsafe sentences. #cambridgewomeninlaw #womensjustice #cambridgeuniversitylaw #SystemsChangers #Womeninprison

APPEAL's Naima Sakande asking for a more human and humane justice system, on today's Cambridge Women in Law panel which asked 'What keeps women needlessly trapped in the criminal justice system?' #justice4women #cambridgewomeninlaw #womeninlaw

@LillyBe58781608 'I was in a very coercive relationship and was drinking a lot at that time. I had already suffered 20 years of abuse and poor mental health and my thought process then was nothing like what it is now.'

Hear more of Lilly's story 👇

Why do any of us do what we do?

@LillyBe58781608 : 'Naima, what's your motivation for doing this type of work?'

#SCTT #FridayMotivation

And I'm Women's Justice Ambassador Lilly Lewis - @LillyBe58781608

Together, Naima and I campaign for better outcomes for women with experience of domestic abuse, violence and trauma in custody.

Here is a little hello and some more about me 👇

#SCTT APPEAL

Morning Twitter! Naima Sakande and @LillyBe58781608 from APPEAL here! We'll be managing today's #systemschangers twitter takeover.

APPEAL fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform of our broken criminal justice system.

I'm Naima, Women's Justice Advocate 👇

#SCTT

Join us tomorrow for another special #systemschangers twitter takeover #SCTT
We're fortunate to have two amazing women, Lilly & Naima from APPEAL in conversation all day. Discussing topics such as domestic violence, racism in prisons & why we need criminal justice reform.

Black women are let down by the legal system👇🏾

▪️2x as likely as white women to be arrested
▪️18% of the women’s prison population is BAME
▪️60% of female offenders have experienced DV
▪️only 37% of BAME women who experience violence make a formal report
theguardian.com/society/2020/j…

My nephew’s Tweet about his Mum Val Curtis and her battle to obtain timely treatment for her cancer. She truly is amazing and someone whom this world cannot afford to lose. She is also a dear sister-in-law and I am very fortunate to have her in my life.

Val is one of our amazing professors, researching sanitation and hygiene all over the world.

Here Val shares her battle against cancer. Important, honest and brave piece.

➡️ bit.ly/30bojQG Val Curtis Guardian Opinion