Climate activists targeted in police crackdown at G7
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...G7 Summit police confused about duty to protect freedom of assembly
PHOTO: Resist G7 Protests against the forthcoming G7 summit, from 11-13 June in Carbis Bay in Cornwall, are expected to face a huge policing operation that includes exclusion zones and around 6500 officers from around the country. A coalition of organisations under...Government announces new restrictions to the right to protest
Protester at a Black Lives Matter protest in London in 2020. Photo: Shutterstock Please sign the petition rejecting the government’s new crackdown on freedom to protest. SIGN THE PETITION The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our ability to take...SURVEY: campaigners want stronger protest protections and less surveillance
PHOTO: Shutterstock A survey of campaigning groups conducted by Netpol shows overwhelming support for protesters retaining a right to have their privacy even when they are on the streets, along with a firm rejection of police treating civil disobedience and direct...