“They yelled out ‘ISIS Bitch’, ‘Go back to where you came from’ and snickered and said, ‘Shh or she’ll behead you’. They followed me down the street. None of the train staff helped me out or stopped them.”
Every law and order or terrorism scare creates a new wave of repressive laws that result in more people being locked up, and for longer. But the Brighton siege case indicates that such policies fuel further attacks rather than preventing them. Liz Walsh explains.