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The Home Office has finally confirmed it will collate and publish data on the use of police powers to restrict protests, following sustained pressure from Netpol and our supporters netpol.org/2023/06/20/pre… #DefendDissent 
@JustStop_Oil @libertyhq This delay is three years after greater transparency was recommended by Parliament’s @HumanRightsCtte, and comes despite almost all usage of powers to restrict protests resulting from just one force – the Metropolitan Police.
@JustStop_Oil @libertyhq @HumanRightsCtte Frustratingly, the Home Office will require everyone to wait an entire year, until “the summer of 2024”, before protest data becomes publicly available – despite a significant portion of the data already made publicly available via the Metropolitan Police’s social media.
🧵 A short thread on the proposed new public order bill that the government will include in the Queen's Speech next Monday:
These new police powers were floated before by Boris Johnson in October 2021 as a knee-jerk reaction to what he called “illegitimate protests” involving civil disobedience against government inaction on the climate crisis
Rejecting the legitimacy of climate campaigners’ demands, whilst seeking an expansion of blanket stop and search powers, will lead to the relentless harassment of protesters by the police, simply for travelling to a protest whilst having an association with an “illegal” movement
Now the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has given the police new powers to impose restrictions on protests, what happens next? netpol.org/2022/05/04/def… #DefendDissent
It's time to get organised. Netpol will assist frontline campaigners facing the impact of new police powers. We've started to gather resources - see 'Get Organised to Defend Dissent'
netpol.org/defend-dissent/ #DefendDissent
netpol.org/defend-dissent/ #DefendDissent
We need better protection for campaigners most likely to face increased surveillance – and greater awareness of basic security practices that can help us challenge police intelligence gathering.
Read our new 'Guide to Police Surveillance' netpol.org/netpols-guide-… #DefendDissent
Read our new 'Guide to Police Surveillance' netpol.org/netpols-guide-… #DefendDissent
Simultaneous raids in Goa, Ranchi, Hyderabad, Delhi at homes of Gautam Navlakha, @Sudhabharadwaj, Stan Swamy and Anand Teltumbde. Info via @SauravDatta29
Here's why such raids are wrong and scary:
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Here's why such raids are wrong and scary:
scroll.in/article/885664…
And, @SauravDatta29 says Pune police raiding @arunztoonz and @StoriesUnscene's homes and lawyer Susan Abraham's in Bombay.
CC: @apushpa @paddycs @meeracomposes
CC: @apushpa @paddycs @meeracomposes
What the Emergency meant was that British-type colonial rule had returned through the back door. And, as before, my personal rights and freedom of expression had been forcibly taken away - Kuldip Nayyar.
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