As US lawmakers were meeting on 6 January 2021 to ratify the results of the presidential election, far-right supporters of the US president, Donald Trump, stormed the building.
Rights Watch UK has challenged the appointment of Lord Carlile as Independent Reviewer, arguing that having previously expressed strong support for the Prevent strategy and dismissed criticism of it, he cannot be condsidered truly independent.
The database is held by the police and includes sensitive personal information of every referral ever received by Prevent, the government’s 'anti-extremism' scheme.
The World Council of Churches has hosted a Sikh-Christian dialogue with the theme 'Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World' to commemorate the 550th birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikhs.
Protestors in central London have voiced anger about the role of Indian leaders in religious, gender and caste-based violence. Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, was attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting but also met the Queen, Prince Charles and Theresa May.