Send us a text We sit down with Dr Juliette Brown, an NHS consultant psychiatrist and climate activist facing a retrial after a hung jury, and Sir Jonathan Porritt, a leading environmental thinker who has returned to civil disobedience, to explore how conscience, health, and the law collide in today’s UK. Together, we unpack Defend Our Juries, the grassroots campaign centred on a simple principle: jurors have the right to acquit according to conscience. We look at how tightened protest laws,...
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Send us a text We sit down with Dr Juliette Brown, an NHS consultant psychiatrist and climate activist facing a retrial after a hung jury, and Sir Jonathan Porritt, a leading environmental thinker who has returned to civil disobedience, to explore how conscience, health, and the law collide in today’s UK. Together, we unpack Defend Our Juries, the grassroots campaign centred on a simple principle: jurors have the right to acquit according to conscience. We look at how tightened protest laws,...
Send us a text We sit down with Dr Juliette Brown, an NHS consultant psychiatrist and climate activist facing a retrial after a hung jury, and Sir Jonathan Porritt, a leading environmental thinker who has returned to civil disobedience, to explore how conscience, health, and the law collide in today’s UK. Together, we unpack Defend Our Juries, the grassroots campaign centred on a simple principle: jurors have the right to acquit according to conscience. We look at how tightened protest laws,...
Send us a text A detention centre meant to correct young men became a blueprint for how institutions can enable predators. We dig into Medomsley’s regime of fear, the violence that greeted boys at the gate, and the sexual abuse that flourished where power went unchecked. Guided by survivors’ testimonies and an in-depth conversation with the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman behind Operation Dearness, we explore how culture, leadership, and weak oversight combined to normalise harm and silence c...
Send us a text Our latest Rebel Justice Podcast offers a powerful preview of The View Magazine Issue 15, weaving first‑hand testimony, hard data and practical solutions across prisons, youth custody, social care and community action. If these stories move you, pre‑order Issue 15 at https://theviewmag.org.uk/product/the-view-magazine-issue-15/, subscribe to support this work, and share the episode with someone who cares about women’s justice. Follow and leave a review to help more people fin...
Send us a text Imagine serving three months for a non‑violent offence and imagine being released with no priority for housing, and a wall between you and your child. That’s the hidden sentence thousands of mothers face, and it’s where Not Beyond Redemption steps in with free legal advice and representation to keep families together. We sit with founder and solicitor Camilla Baldwin and solicitor Eben Vaughan-Philipps to unpack how the charity grew from a single clinic to a nationwide network...
Send us a text In this week's episode, we talk to Dr Sarah Benn, a GP who moved from decades of practice to non‑violent climate action. How did Dr Sarah go from sitting outside an oil terminal with a small placard, to ending up behind bars? Dr Sarah explains why civil resistance, done non‑violently, can be a legitimate public health intervention when petitions and policy promises fail. We talk candidly about prison: the loss of agency, the small humiliations that reveal how power works...
Send us a text In part two of our series with The Vavengers, Rebel Justice is joined by Sir Max Hill KC, former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, alongside The Vavengers’ CEO, Sema Gornall and activist Mam Lisa Camara Together, they unpack the legal, political, and global dimensions of the fight to end female genital mutilation (FGM); and the creation of the world’s first comprehensive global dataset on FGM, unveiled at the 80th UN General Assembly. Max Hill shares insigh...
Send us a text In this powerful first episode of a two-part series, Rebel Justice speaks with Sema Gornall, CEO of The Vavengers, and Mam Lisa Camara, a Gambian women’s rights activist and survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM). The Vavengers are a survivor-led organisation using advocacy, art, and community mobilisation to end FGM and gender-based violence. Sema shares the organisation’s origins, the challenges survivors face in the UK, and how grassroots activism is shaping policy and ...
Send us a text A delivery driver calls 999 after witnessing an assault, yet the woman with bruises becomes the suspect. That reversal sets the tone for a story that forces us to confront how easily credibility flips when a vulnerable person meets a tired system. We walk through Tanya’s account of years of coercive control, forced isolation, surveillance, alleged interference with medical records, and symptoms that vanished the moment she was jailed, and ask why those red flags didn’t trigger ...
Send us a text What does it mean to create art in a time of genocide? How can filmmaking become an act of resistance? Saeed Taji Farouky joins Rebel Justice to explore these urgent questions from his perspective as an award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator, and activist. Over two decades, his camera has taken viewers from Myanmar's oil fields to Afghan frontlines, consistently centering voices that mainstream media erases. Throughout our discussion, Saeed offers profound insigh...
Send us a text Justice and law touch every aspect of our lives, yet we rarely think about them until they directly impact us or those we love. When they fail, the consequences can be devastating, especially for the most vulnerable among us. Janine Ewen's story begins in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, where political conflict formed the backdrop to a more intimate violence. As a child witnessing her father's abuse of her mother, Janine learned early what it means when systems fail to p...
Send us a text What happens when a woman who gives voice to the voiceless becomes the target of the very system she criticises? Farah Damji's story challenges everything we believe about justice, compassion, and human dignity in modern Britain. Farah—a mother, editor, writer, and fierce advocate for women in prison—founded The View magazine in 2020 to amplify the stories of women caught in the criminal justice system. Now she finds herself fighting not only stage three breast cancer but also...
Send us a text What happens when you fall through the cracks between two nations? For Carol Lloyd, it's meant a decade-long nightmare of prison cells, medical neglect, and abandonment by the very governments meant to protect her. Carol sits in a Canadian prison today – triple-bunked, seriously ill, and without legal representation. Her British passport was seized during extradition, while her application to revoke Canadian citizenship has sat untouched for over two years. When eventually rel...
Send us a text Welcome back to Rebel Justice and part two of our illuminating conversation with Meg Egan, CEO of the Women's Prison Association—America's first organization dedicated to women impacted by incarceration. Where our first episode explored personal stories driving WPA's mission, this segment zooms out to examine systemic solutions. Meg shares critical insights from her time working at Rikers Island, where she witnessed firsthand the profound failures of mass incarceration, partic...
Send us a text Meg Egan, CEO of the Women’s Prison Association, takes us inside the oldest U.S. organization dedicated to supporting women impacted by incarceration. Since 1845, WPA has quietly revolutionized justice for women and families, addressing root causes like poverty, trauma, and the criminalization of survival. Meg shares how WPA has evolved over 180 years while staying true to its belief that incarceration should never mean a lifetime of poverty or disconnection. We explore their v...
Send us a text When does protest become terrorism? In one of the most alarming developments in a generation, the UK government has prescribed Palestine Action under counter-terrorism legislation, placing a direct action group alongside neo-Nazi organisations and making it a criminal offence to express support for them. This groundbreaking episode delves into the dangerous precedent being set as authorities weaponize anti-terror laws against those challenging state complicity in violence abro...
Send us a text What happens when two young university students decide they can no longer stand by while weapons made in Britain fuel a genocide? For Fatema Zainab and Zoe, both just barely in their twenties, the answer led them to a prison cell where they've remained for nine months – with no trial in sight until November. The "Filton 18" case represents an unprecedented application of counter-terrorism powers against political activists in the UK. After Palestine Action protesters entered E...
Today, we’re bringing you a powerful mini episode to celebrate the release of Issue 14 of The View Magazine, dropping July 31st. The View is the only platform in the UK created by and for women in the justice system; women who are survivors of trauma, of state-endorsed violence, and who face the harshest effects of the climate crisis, incarceration, and systemic injustice. In this episode, we sit down with the fearless editors and writers behind The View to talk about this issue’s themes, the...
Send us a text In this powerful episode of Rebel Justice, we explore what happens when the courtroom becomes another site of violence- where trauma is not just ignored, but used against those already suffering. We focus on the case of Constance Marten, whose high-profile trial for gross negligence manslaughter has captured national headlines. But beneath the surface lies a story of grief, abuse, coercion, and systemic failure. We hear Constance’s own words from prison, describing how the cour...
Send us a text In this heartbreaking episode of Rebel Justice, we tell the story of Khadija Sennai—a mother, a fighter, and a woman betrayed by every institution meant to protect her. Diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer, Khadija endured months of neglect, indifference, and cruelty while imprisoned at HMP Bronzefield. Her repeated cries for help went unanswered—from hospitals that dismissed her symptoms, to a prison system that denied her proper nutrition, dignity, and essential care. Her de...
Send us a text This week on Rebel Justice, we examine the silencing of abuse survivors in the courtrooms of England and Wales-through the complex and controversial case of Farah Damji. Convicted of stalking her former partner Nigel Gould-Davies, a self-proclaimed security expert on Russia, Damji's trial left crucial voices unheard—including testimonies alleging coercive control, theft, gaslighting and emotional abuse by Nigel Gould-Davies. Two former partners of Gould-Davies who w...
Send us a text We sit down with Dr Juliette Brown, an NHS consultant psychiatrist and climate activist facing a retrial after a hung jury, and Sir Jonathan Porritt, a leading environmental thinker who has returned to civil disobedience, to explore how conscience, health, and the law collide in today’s UK. Together, we unpack Defend Our Juries, the grassroots campaign centred on a simple principle: jurors have the right to acquit according to conscience. We look at how tightened protest laws,...
