COP26: will Police Scotland keep their promises?

Oct 12, 2021 | Protest, Rights

Police Scotland invite the press to witness their ongoing public order training at Craigiehall Camp at South Queensferry. Iain Masterton/Alamy Live News With plans for 10,000 police officers on duty every day during the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in...

EXPLAINER: what are the government’s latest proposals for punishing protesters?

Oct 5, 2021 | Protest, Rights

PHOTO: Insulate Britain On Sunday at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the latest punitive proposals for new police powers in her ongoing vendetta against political and social movements the government refuses to...

Metropolitan Police condemned for handling of Stop the Arms Fair protests

Sep 29, 2021 | Protest, Rights

PHOTO: CAAT Anti-militarism campaigners have condemned the Metropolitan Police’s handling of protests at DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International), which was held in early September in Newham, east London. Activists at the Stop the Arms Fair camp...

Draconian new legislation set to shut down protest at Scottish Parliament ahead of COP26

Sep 22, 2021 | Protest, Rights, Support Us

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?

Sep 13, 2021 | Support Us

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”

Aug 5, 2021 | Comment, Protest

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...

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...