> Searched by Police at DSEi? Liberty needs your help,
> Urgently!
>
> Liberty's high court legal challenge of police
> searches at DSEI will take place on 2 October, 2003.
> Were you searched in London by police using Section
> 44/Anti-terror search powers during/before the week of
> September 6th-12 "DSEI week"?
>
> If so, Liberty needs a copy of your police search
> record(s) ASAP!! Your anonymity will be guaranteed,
> but the some of the information from the record will
> be used on THURSDAY the 2nd of OCTOBER at the High
> Court Hearing (see below).
>
> Send a copy of your police search record(s) would be
> sent via fax to 0207 407 5354 or delivered by hand to
> Liberty at 21 Tabard Street, SE1 4LA (Borough Tube).
>
> If you have questions, please ring Mona Arshi (the
> LIBERTY lawyer handling the case) at 0207 378 3653.
>
> NOTE: All information will be held in accordance with
> you right to privacy under the data protection act
> 1998).
>
> --------background- shorter version--------
>
> A short explanation of Liberty's high court challenge
> of police tactics at DSEI.
>
> The Metropolitan police used anti-terror searches to
> intimidate, disrupt and deter protest at DSEI.
> Liberty will challenge these police tactics in the
> high court judicial review on the 2nd of October,
> 2003. To show support, arrive at 9am outside the
> Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand.
>
> For more details, visit
> www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
>
> -----------background- longer version--------
>
> Liberty's high court challenge of Met police tactics
> at DSEI
>
> by Jesse Schust
>
> The Metropolitan police used anti-terror searches to
> intimidate, disrupt and deter protest at DSEI.
>
> In response, Liberty challenges these police tactics
> in the high court judicial review on the 2nd of
> October, 2003. Supporters should arrive at 9am
> outside the Royal Courts of Justice, on The Strand,
> London.
>
> On December 10th, Blunkett ordered an Scotland Yard
> investigation of alleged misuse of the anti-terror
> searches at DSEI. Blunkett's statements suggest that
> this was the first time anti-terror search powers may
> have been misused, but there is substantial
> documentation of such police tactics being employed
> against protesters around 'RAF Fairford' airbase
> during the invasion of Iraq.
>
> In July 2003, Liberty, Gloucestershire Weapons
> Inspectors, and Berkshire CIA issued the 22 page
> report "Casualty of War - Eight weeks of counter
> terrorism in rural England".
>
> For more details, visit www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk