Defend Freedom To Protest
The government’s new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is an unprecedented attack on our freedom to protest. We have to fight against this Bill. But we need more than opposition – that’s why we’re launching a new Charter For Freedom of Assembly Rights.
Policing Black Lives Matter protests in Britain in 2020
Netpol has published “Britain Is Not Innocent”, our 60-page report on the policing of this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests in Britain. Read, download and share
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Draconian new legislation set to shut down protest at Scottish Parliament ahead of COP26
Campaigners have condemned controversial new legislation designed to shut down protests outside the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh, warning new police powers will have a “chilling effect” on the right to protest. The timing of this new legislation – just...
CALL OUT: do you recognise ‘John Kerry’, the police spy placed in CND’s head office?
Banner outside the Undercover Policing Inquiry in 2019. PHOTO: Netpol The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has been granted Core Participant status in the judge-led public inquiry into undercover policing, chaired by Sir John Mitting QC, after it was confirmed...
Prison sentences for Bristol activists accused of “riot”
PHOTO: Riot police in Bristol disperse a #KillTheBill protest Five people are facing imprisonment in the first round of sentencing for convictions from the Bristol #KillTheBill in March. Four were given 3+ year sentences for riot, while another was sentenced to 5...