Category: repression

FIT not authorised to monitor meeting

July 23, 2010 17:57 | news, repression | No comments

PRESS RELEASE from London NoBorders 23 July, 2010 Forward Intelligence Team was not authorised to monitor NoBorders Meeting. Protestors acquitted in Crown Court. London NoBorders welcomes the Crown Court decision to clear three activists of the charges of “obstructing the police”. The Inner London Crown Court ruled that police surveillance of a public political meeting [...]

Fitwatchers brutalised by cops using unnecessarily violent restraint procedures

June 21, 2009 18:36 | news, repression |

… and lying about it! 21st June ’09 and the Guardian reports on the arrest of Fitwatchers at last year’s Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent after they had questioned the police about failure to display badge numbers. Both Swain and Apple were pinned to the ground in restraint positions for around 15 minutes. Apple [...]

Yet more encroachments on the freedom to photograph

November 5, 2008 01:35 | Photos, news, repression |

Read Terror Law and Photography on photojournalist Marc Vallee’s blog… right now! Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d33′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

Street Journalists Under Surveillance

May 31, 2008 06:18 | Miscellaneous, repression |

“…Street Journalism includes covering a lot of political and social protest, of which there are plenty in London. But in recent months – that seems to have coincided with the introduction of the 2008 Counter Terrorism Act and subsequent publicity campaign – according to various work colleagues, it seems the London Metropolitan (Met) Police Forward [...]

Is this what a police state looks like?

May 5, 2008 08:47 | news, repression |

Excerpts from the New Statesman post: “Protestors trickled in down the path from Tower Bridge, dispersing among the crowds of camera-toting tourists and their toddlers, high school volleyball teams on school trips, students and local workers. But what was planned as a protest against the elections and a blockade of the BNP became little more [...]