Stop Labelling Campaigners "Domestic Extremists"
“Domestic extremism” is defined so broadly that it encompasses any campaign making use of civil disobedience or direct action. Netpol is campaigning for the police to stop using this highly subjective categorisation of legitimate campaigning and protest activities.
Support Netpol
It takes time and energy to defend our right to freely assemble in public without facing the threat of arrest or harassment from the police – and it takes the support of people like you.Latest News
Letter: Police must stop labelling campaigns as “domestic extremists”
Published by the Guardian on Tuesday 18 June 2019 One of the greatest threats to free speech in Britain is the routine labelling, by the police, of non-violent protests and campaigns as “domestic extremism”. This is a term that has no clear legal definition but yet is...
CALL-OUT: trained legal observers requested for Trump state visit next week
GBC legal observers at London anti-Trump protests in 2018. PHOTO: Netpol With one of our partner groups, Green and Black Cross (GBC), currently pausing its activities to reorganise and rebuild its capacity, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) has...
Five paranoid reasons why the police label campaigners as “domestic extremists”
This article first appeared on The Canary on 30 May 2019 It is unclear exactly how many people have their personal details included on the police's national “domestic extremist” database – to give it its full name, the National Special Branch Intelligence System –...