Two students charged with violent disorder after taking part in a demonstration at Birmingham University were bailed yesterday and will return to court on May 23.
Simon Furse and Kelly Rogers were arrested with 12 others students after being kettled on a rooftop for over four hours on Wednesday evening.
The pair were initially refused bail and appeared at Birmingham magistrates' court in the afternoon.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter


