Screening Rights 2020 Special Event: INJUSTICE (2001) + Q&A
Date and time
Location
Online event
Screening of documentary INJUSTICE (UK 2001, dir. Ken Fero & Tariq Mehmood) + panel with filmmakers, civil rights lawyer & family member.
About this event
Between 1969 and 1999 over a thousand people died in police custody in England. Not one police officer has ever been convicted for any of these deaths.
INJUSTICE (98 min), a documentary by Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood, follows the struggles for justice by the families of some of those who have died in police custody. Since its launch in 2001, after seven years in production, the film has been screened in UK cinemas and many international film festivals but was never broadcast on a British TV channel. You can learn more about the film and the people featured in it on Injustice's website.
Event schedule
Thursday, 30 July 2020
5pm
Log in to zoom meeting (the link will be provided closer to the date) to hear co-directors Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood introduce the documentary.
5:10pm
Watch the film on vimeo
7pm
Return to the zoom meeting for panel discussion and Q&A
The panel will be chaired by Rajinder Dudrah, Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative industries at Birmingham City University.
Our confirmed panelists include:
- Ken Fero and Tariq Mehmood - filmmakers
- Marcia Willis Stewart QC - prominent civil rights lawyer and inquest specialist
- Janet Alder - sister of Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper, who died at a Hull police station in 1998
The invite to zoom meeting giving you access to directors' intro and panel discussion will be emailed to ticket holders in the week of the event.
If you prefer to watch the film before that and join us for the panel only, you can do it here:
Both images courtesy of Migrant Media.
Top image: Jasmine Elvie, the mother of Brian Douglas who died in the custody of police officers on 8 May 1995.
Bottom image: Protest at Stoke Newington police station at the death of Shiji Lapite, 23 December 1994.
