Notices by Netpol (netpol@mastodon.social)

Palestinian student Dana Abu Qamar has won her human rights appeal against the Home Office’s nasty, racist decision to strip her of her student visa after comments she made about Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians #DefendDissent https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/30/manchester-university-student-dana-abu-qamar-wins-back-visa-after-pro-gaza-comments

“Political repression is ruining our lives”

The shocking story of three local anti-cuts protesters in Newham whose homes were raided by police over 'hate crime' accusations and who have felt unable to speak out for 8 months due to bail conditions https://netpol.org/2024/10/21/political-repression-is-ruining-our-lives/

Tomorrow, a London Assembly committee will hold hearings into public order policing in the capital. Its focus is not on whether your rights are protected - but whether protesters are an inconvenience and nuisance to the Metropolitan Police https://netpol.org/2024/09/17/london-assembly-inquiry-to-consider-how-protesters-have-inconvenienced-the-met/

Do you have legal questions, have you witnessed an arrest or police violence or have you been arrested yourself?

Make sure to call the Protest Support Line on 07946 541 511 (write this number on your arm under a sleeve)

If you're joining today's 🇵🇸 Palestine solidarity protests, make sure you follow this key advice to keep yourself and your friends safer!

🍉 NO COMMENT
🍉 NO PERSONAL DETAILS
🍉 UNDER WHAT POWER?
🍉 NO DUTY SOLICITOR
🍉 NO CAUTION

Protest on campus: what students need to know.

We've produced a new guide with key information for student organisers, as a new term begins. Find it at https://netpol.org/2024/10/02/what-do-students-need-to-know-about-policing-and-protest/

The trial of the Metropolitan Police firearms officer Martyn Blake charged with the murder of Chris Kaba will begin tomorrow at the Old Bailey. The trial is expected to last for three weeks.

Marieha Hussain has been found not guilty

https://mastodon.social/@netpol/113128993992786954

The crackdown on the right to protest you might not even have heard about: 25 conspiracy arrests, people held in handcuffs for hours, five homes raided across the country, hundreds of officers, all to stop a protest camp from gathering NEAR a power station https://netpol.org/2024/09/11/twenty-five-conspiracy-arrests-as-police-disrupt-drax-protest/

The wrongful conviction of Oliver Campbell, a man with severe learning difficulties jailed for life in 1991 after numerous oppressive police interviews, has finally been quashed. This is the longest miscarriage of justice in British criminal history https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/sep/11/appeal-court-clears-man-with-severe-learning-difficulties-of-1990-london

Operation Infusion was a huge police operation to disrupt the recent Drax power station protest – police commandeered a primary school as a custody suite and officers even had branded lanyards. Some of the 25 arrested for conspiracy share their experiences https://netpol.org/2024/09/11/twenty-five-conspiracy-arrests-as-police-disrupt-drax-protest/

A Palestine solidarity campaigner whose home was raided by police soon after videoing a Welsh Labour politician, a junior minister in the Ministry of Justice, tells Netpol she believes the MP has weaponised the police and court system to intimidate her https://netpol.org/2024/09/04/welsh-mp-triggers-police-raid-on-palestine-campaigner/

Fixed that for you, "human rights lawyer guy" https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/30/prison-population-record-high-england-and-wales

In May, the High Court ruled the Tory government acted unlawfully in creating legislation giving the police almost unlimited powers to restrict protests. Now Labour's Yvette Cooper is pushing ahead with an appeal.

The new boss, same as the old boss https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/home-office-liberty-government-high-court-green-b1178866.html

Yesterday anti-racists mobilised to counter a far-right protest in Bournemouth. In another sign that the dystopian future that fiction so often warns of already exists, Dorset Police "used a drone to tell people to remove face coverings and disguises". One participant described the broadcast warnings as a "really weirdly dystopian sound" and another as "eerie as fuck". There were no arrests https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgd5zkddwjo

A new report says Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police in England & Wales. A child is searched every 14 hours. But it then calls only for "urgent procedural change", which policing has shown it is serially incapable of delivering. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/black-children-in-england-and-wales-four-times-more-likely-to-be-strip-searched-figures-show

The University of Portsmouth - this academic's employer, for crying out loud - reported Amira Abdelhamid to Prevent resulting in counter-terrorism officers raiding her home. All charges have now been dropped https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-drops-terrorism-case-against-academic-after-raiding-home-over-tweets

The government REALLY wants the public to believe in aggressive policing solutions to societal problems. This is a royal seal of approval for the new national public order force, with potentially alarming consequences for future protests by social, racial and climate justice movements

Some of the many thousands of people who mobilised and were ready to physically protect a community by confronting fascists. The British government's 'advisor on political violence and disruption', Lord Walnut, calls this kind of protest "far left extremism" for not "seeking to enact change through democratic consent"

The Home Secretary has thanked entirely the wrong group for protecting and supporting local communities. The clue is in the photo