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UK: Satpal Ram update

01 August 2001

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In 1986 Satpal Ram was racially attacked in an Indian Restaurant. In the course of defending himself, his attacker died. In 1987 Satpal was convicted of murder without being given the opportunity to defend himself in court. During his 15-year incarceration he has been moved continuously, seventy times, to a variety of High Security locations (see Statewatch vol 4 no 3, vol 6 no 6, vol 9 no 5). On 27 October 2000 the Parole Board gave an unprecedented recommendation supporting Satpal's immediate release. After sitting on the decision for seven months, the-then Home Secretary Jack Straw rejected the recommendation and imposed instead a decategorisation timetable. In September 2001 the Criminal Cases Review Commission provisionally rejected Satpal's legal team's submission that his conviction was unsafe. For further information, contact:

Free Satpal Campaign, PO Box 30091, London SE1 1WP. Tel: 07947 595367; email: freesatpalcampaign@hotmail.com

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