Jun 11, 2018 | Protest, Rights
In a judgment received today, a tribunal has ruled in favour of Netpol and said that the police cannot rely on safeguarding national security as a reason for refusing to release any information on how often opponents of fracking are referred to a secretive...
Jun 7, 2018 | Protest, Rights
GUEST POST Injunctions are scary sounding things, but that’s exactly what they’re meant to be. Fear, rather than actual prosecutions, is the primary means by which injunction orders succeed in shutting down protest. And you can understand why: if a court...
Apr 3, 2018 | Protest, Rights
A sweeping injunction sought by shale oil and gas company UKOG against campaigners in south-east England looks like it has run into difficulties since it was challenged in court in March The draft orders, originally made against “persons unknown”, attempted to...
Jul 26, 2017 | Protest, Rights
PRESS RELEASE Netpol has today launched a new film on the many allegations of police violence made by campaigners who are blockading shale gas company Cuadrilla’s drilling site at Preston New Road in Lancashire. In the first in a forthcoming series of short...
