Quick information from an interview conducted with a woman who was arrested near Custom House DLR during wednesday's anti-DSEi protests:
She was held at charing cross police station - PACE handbook specifies the rights of those being held - it seems almost all of the rules were breached:
- 10 hours without food
- 14 hours incommunicado
- she was not allowed to notify anyone of her detention
- request for a solicitor was repeatedly denied
- she was refused paper and writing materials (even when she said she wanted to document a complaint)
- the cell she was kep in was filthy and the toiled was covered in vomit and blood - she was refused sanitary facilities
and what terrible crime was she accused of? 'Obstructing the hightway'!
- 10 hours without food
- 14 hours incommunicado
- she was not allowed to notify anyone of her detention
- request for a solicitor was repeatedly denied
- she was refused paper and writing materials (even when she said she wanted to document a complaint)
- the cell she was kep in was filthy and the toiled was covered in vomit and blood - she was refused sanitary facilities
and what terrible crime was she accused of? 'Obstructing the hightway'!
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and another thing
12.09.2003 17:45
at which point, out the door came a DSEI demonstrator saying he'd been in a cell all afternoon and there were 'three floors full' of DSEI arrestees, around a hundred people.
anyone know the legal implications of police denying that they are holding particular individuals or groups of people? sounds unpleasantly like a move in the direction of 'disappearances'..
never forget the 8 or 9 people who have now been held incommunicado for a year or so in Belmarsh jail under some of these terrifying new 'terrorist' laws...
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