UK Repression Newswire Archive
Request from Climate Camp’s Legal Support Team
24-03-2009 00:12
At the last climate camp it was difficult to track down video footage for the lawyers/arrestees; the hope that a central database would come together did not come together as well as we would have liked.
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G20 Nigel Rosser exposed
23-03-2009 18:00
Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report
23-03-2009 15:16
We Stand with the Iranian Students - Solidarity Action
23-03-2009 13:04
London Critical Mass sound systems.
23-03-2009 07:47
The Critical Mass (CM) ride is often accompanied by cycle sound systems, which the police in the past have silenced in the vicinity of Parliament.Police too heavy handed says Parliamentary Committee.
23-03-2009 07:16
First the Law Lords came down on the side of Critical Mass and now a Parliamentary Committee is supporting public protesters against police. Whatever next!Join the BNP fund-raiser demo at Laindon
23-03-2009 01:55
Protest against the BNPWhy the police riot? - part 9
22-03-2009 23:50
This is part 9 of a series, for parts 1-8 see:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422077.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422683.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423404.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424220.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422079.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422685.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/03//423405.pdf http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/03//424222.pdf
Which values don′t you share?
22-03-2009 13:53
The Home Office's new counter-terrorism document called 'Contest Two' - to be published on Tuesday - will increase the focus on challenging individuals and groups who undermine the UK's "shared values" - even if they are not actually breaking any law.Getting arrested
22-03-2009 09:14
I was arrested yesturday under section 69 of the Crminal Justice Act for aggravated trespassBush Yes, Galloway No - Canada bars George Galloway from entry
21-03-2009 21:26
Respect MP George Galloway has been barred from entering Canada to address a forum of Canada's Peace Movement. The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration cites "national security concerns...wikid welsh vegetables?
21-03-2009 09:19
Internal bank memos about alleged tax avoidance were withdrawn from Guardian website after lawyers obtained emergency temporary injunctionBUT (hush hush) they ARE available on Wikileaks (secure.wikileaks.org)
The SOCPA zone: one year dead
20-03-2009 15:35
It's now a year since the government said they accepted that SOCPA s132-138 should be repealed, but still there is no bill before parliament which would repeal, and the government can only repeat that they aim to..."My Lords, I absolutely believe in everyone’s right to protest within the law. That is exactly what we are aiming to do. We are intent on repealing this provision, which clearly was not a clever thing to have done in the first place."
- Lord West of Spithead
London antidiscriminatory groups action at Lithuanian Embassy
20-03-2009 12:43
Dialect - Lifelines, writing letters to prisoners ... & dangers of flouridation
20-03-2009 01:06
http://www.bcfm.org.uk/
U.K. to monitor, store all social-network traffic?
19-03-2009 18:23
An article on CNET is reporting that: "The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo."Borough Solicitor issues threatening letter over critical leaflet
19-03-2009 16:58
Borough Solicitor at the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has got her knickers in a twist over a leaflet distributed in Farnborough highly critical of the council.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Islamophobia and the Jailing of Hicham Yezza
19-03-2009 13:44
In May 2008 Hicham Yezza, an IT technician at the University of Nottingham, was arrested, together with student Rizwaan Sabir, in a well-publicised anti-terrorist swoop. They had downloaded al-Qaida material from the US Department of Defense website as part of Sabir's academic work on terrorism.Police are lying bastards (non news)
19-03-2009 11:59
As if to prove what lying self serving bastards the cops are, the assistant chief constable of Kent Police wrote the following letter which was published in the Guardian. In the face of this kind of blatant spin it is not hard to understand why trust in the police is at such a low ebb. It barely contains a single word of a truth...