Mass arrests today linked to G20 - Media asked to keep quiet
G20 person | 24.04.2009 12:23 | G20 London Summit
In what looks like a European wide co-ordinated series of arrests 63 people have been arrested today in conjunction with activities during the G20 event. The truly worrying part is that police have requested the mainstream media to not report this until later tonight as further arrests are expected and they do not want tip offs.
ID informaiton has come from small person mounted cameras that the police in the UK used for the first time in a major operation. Undercover police mixed with activists during preperation for the G20 protests at rampARTS and the Climate Camp gathering in Paul St and used voice matching and facial recognition software to identify individuals that were in some case masked up.
Following the arrests houses and flats were searched and equipment including PC's laptops and DVD's were taken away. Those arrested in the UK have been taken to police stations across London with those in mainland Europe also held in police stations.
Legal observers have visited Battersea and West End Central police stations to request oversight of the interviews but have been refused entry.
ID informaiton has come from small person mounted cameras that the police in the UK used for the first time in a major operation. Undercover police mixed with activists during preperation for the G20 protests at rampARTS and the Climate Camp gathering in Paul St and used voice matching and facial recognition software to identify individuals that were in some case masked up.
Following the arrests houses and flats were searched and equipment including PC's laptops and DVD's were taken away. Those arrested in the UK have been taken to police stations across London with those in mainland Europe also held in police stations.
Legal observers have visited Battersea and West End Central police stations to request oversight of the interviews but have been refused entry.
G20 person