Today, the Prime Minister will announce the roadmap out of lockdown 3, nearly 2 MONTHS after it came into force.

This long wait is unacceptable. The public shouldn’t be left in limbo, waiting on the discretion of Ministers as to when our liberties will be restored.
This lockdown was introduced without Parliamentary approval.

And throughout, Parliament and the public haven't been permitted to see the legally required reviews of the effectiveness of lockdown restrictions. How can Parliament make decisions without them? Do they even exist?
The Govt's emphasis on criminalising people & ever-increasing enforcement powers has caused a wave of injustice at a time of great hardship for many.

We want to see a public health, not criminal law, approach to the pandemic.
The PM offered no information as to when the right to protest will be restored.

Peaceful protest is the cornerstone of our democracy. It should never be an afterthought.

With increasing evidence that outdoor settings are low risk, freedom of assembly must be fully restored. 🪧

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23 Feb
🎉This is a fantastic judgment in a case brought by a Big Brother Watch supporter that could help many, many others wrongly prosecuted during the lockdowns.

It confirms it's *not* an offence to refuse to give your personal details to police for a suspected covid regs breach.
We cannot thank @jpormerod enough, who has provided fantastic legal support to people in need like Mr Neale throughout the pandemic, and who gives us excellent advice. No doubt there are more successes to come! Thanks again to Patrick, @BindmansLLP @wainwright_tom @gardencourtlaw
Mr Neale called us after he was arrested during the first lockdown simply for being outside, alone, posing a risk to no one. He was homeless and therefore exempt from the requirement to stay at home. The police treated him aggressively and held him in a police cell.
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21 Feb
✊NO ID CARDS✊

Today is an important day to say loud + clear: no national ID, no vaccine ID, no voter ID!

69 yrs ago today in 1952, Winston Churchill’s govnt scrapped ID cards. Why? In his words, to “set the people free”.

Here’s a story about Britain’s rejection of ID cards.
At the beginning of WW2 in 1939, the National Registration Act was passed as an emergency measure.

Every man, woman and child had to carry an ID card at all times. The main purposes were for evacuations, rationing and population statistics. 45 million paper cards were issued.
But like most emergency measures, ID cards didn’t go away after the war.

In 1950, Harry Willcock, a 54 year old London dry cleaner, was stopped by a police man who demanded to see his ID.

He refused, telling him simply “I am against this sort of thing”.
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19 Feb
🚨NEWS: We've written to @NorwichChloe to urge her to clarify there is no legal ban on political leafleting.

Our joint letter is signed by @article19org @fairvoteuk @IndexCensorship @libertyhq @UnlockDemocracy @LGA_Independent

📃Read more: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/02/rights…
The very suggestion of a political leafleting ban contradicts the continuation of other postal + delivery services, lacks a public health justification, lacks legal authority, engages the right to freedom of expression protected by ECHR and threatens the functioning of democracy.
Our Legal & Policy Officer @madeleine_st0ne:

“The freedom to distribute political leaflets is a basic right in a functioning democracy. It'd be deeply cynical for Ministers to use the shield of covid restrictions to attempt to take this political freedom away before an election
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12 Feb
Tomorrow, Tony Blair will be in the press telling us that digital vaccine passports are "inevitable".

It's a lie. A future of digital authoritarianism and discrimination is anything but inevitable.

Our director @silkiecarlo explained why on @BBCRadio4 PM this evening ⬇️
📽️Watch the full discussion here

We're building up a fight against mandatory vaccine passports - we can only do it together. Join us:

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/join/now/
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5 Feb
📝NEW: Read our latest Emergency Powers and Civil Liberties Report here⬇️

We cover how the pandemic response has impacted rights and freedoms, including:

Excessive policing 🚔
Online censorship 🤐
A Big Tech coup 🖥️
Protest bans 🪧
Vaccine passports 🛂

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EXCESSIVE POLICING:

The Government instigated a misguided 'crackdown'. Police have been arresting + fining people safely going for walks, sitting on benches + playing Pokemon Go.

We believe thousands of fines have been issued unlawfully. Every fine must be urgently reviewed.
ONLINE CENSORSHIP:

Social media firms have been taking down content, even from MPs, that contradicts or criticises Govt health policy

But in a democracy, we have the right to debate, dissent+ speak freely. Unelected Silicon Valley billionaires shouldn't be the arbiters of truth
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29 Jan
🚨The Government just made a law - without parliament or even publicity - allowing police to access NHS Test & Trace data of people who are self-isolating.

This is a disastrous move that's draconian, undemocratic and misguided in equal measure.

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/97/r…
Medical privacy is the bedrock of any public health system, yet this Government is trashing it at a time when it has never been more important.

Blurring the lines between the NHS and police will deter people from getting tests or giving contact tracers accurate information.
To throw open this data gateway without consulting parliament or the even telling the public - on the premise of 'urgency' - is yet another example of this Government's pattern of abuse of power.

It is dangerous for public health & dangerous for democracy. MPs must challenge it.
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