Resisting new police powers – what next for #KillTheBill campaigners?

Jul 15, 2021 | Comment, Protest

PHOTO: Loredana Sangiuliano In the end, every member of the governing party in the House of Commons voted for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in its entirety. Perhaps surprisingly, this included the Conservative MPs who sit on the Joint Committee on...

Proposal for ‘Code for the Policing of Protest’ is Netpol’s Charter in all but name

Jul 1, 2021 | Comment, Protest

Protester at a Black Lives Matter protest in London in 2020. Photo: Shutterstock An Inquiry report published today by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution has endorsed the demand – by local and national organisations and tens of...

Inquiry report scathing about ‘revenge policing’ of Bristol protests

Jul 1, 2021 | Protest

An Inquiry report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution has published a damning criticism of the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil in London and Kill the Bill protests in Bristol. The police’s reaction to both protests, the...

A ‘duty of candour’ must extend to the policing of protests

Jun 30, 2021 | Protest

Photo: Shutterstock Last week’s condemnation of proposed government restrictions on protests in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as “oppressive and wrong” by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has somewhat overshadowed its call for greater...

New protest restrictions breach human rights, say MPs and peers

Jun 22, 2021 | Comment, Protest

PHOTO: Loredana Sangiuliano /Shutterstock A legislative scrutiny report on the public order section of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, published today by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a parliamentary committee made up MPs and peers, says...

Climate activists targeted in police crackdown at G7

Jun 16, 2021 | Protest

Police officers raid Animal Rebellion camp at G7 protest During the G7 summit last weekend, officers from Devon & Cornwall Police arrested 29 members of the animal rights and climate emergency group Animal Rebellion, in what looked like the deliberate targeting of...