Green and Black Cross announces changes to future protest legal support
PHOTO: Keith Gentry / Shutterstock.com In May , Netpol member Green and Black Cross (GBC) took a break from all outward-facing activities, including delivering training workshops and coordinating legal observers. It has now clarified how it plans to organise in the...Call-Out for Legal Observers: Stop the Arms Fair, 2-9th September 2019
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 stepped in to help coordinate a call for trained legal observers to...Victory for Netpol campaigning as Home Office confirms it has stopped using the term “domestic extremism”
The Green Party peer Jenny Jones outside of New Scotland Yard After almost a decade of campaigning for an end to the highly subjective categorisation of campaigners at “domestic extremists”, Netpol has finally received confirmation that the Home Office has...Netpol condemns calls for expanding surveillance on “far left, anarchist and environmentalist” groups
PHOTO: Julia Hawkins on Flickr The report published today by conservative think-tank Policy Exchange, attacking campaigners from Extinction Rebellion, is a direct call for expanding surveillance on “far left, anarchist and environmentalist extremism”. The report’s...Kings College head of security who blocked students during Queen’s visit was former Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent
Photo: Shutterstock A London university employed a former senior police officer as its head of security. Now he has left after unlawfully sharing a student protest ‘watch list’ with former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police. Last week, Kings College London...It is time to open up the secret world of “domestic extremist” policing
PHOTO: Netpol Last week, the Guardian’s report on compensation paid by the Metropolitan Police for the mass arrests of anti-fascist campaigners in 2013 included confirmation from court documents of the deployment of covert officers at the demonstration in Tower...Domestic extremism label is ‘manifestly deficient’ says former reviewer of terrorism laws
Police intelligence gatherers at an east London pro-Palestine action. PHOTO: from the Netpol Flickr Pool In a report published last week, David Anderson QC, a former independent reviewer of UK terrorism legislation, has called the ‘domestic extremism’...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...