Stop Labelling Campaigners "Domestic Extremists"
“Domestic extremism” is defined so broadly that it encompasses any campaign making use of civil disobedience or direct action. Netpol is campaigning for the police to stop using this highly subjective categorisation of legitimate campaigning and protest activities.
Support Netpol
Latest News
Kent Police pay compensation after questioning anarchists under anti-terror laws
PHOTO: Shutterstock PRESS RELEASE The Chief Constable of Kent Police has this year paid a cash settlement to an anarchist writer and organiser who they had stopped and interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. On 19th May 2013, Tom Anderson (a pseudonym to...
“We don’t use rubber bullets in the UK, we don’t know what they are”
PHOTO: Stephen Reel GUEST POST Maev McDaid and Brian Christopher are Irish migrants from Derry living in London. Yesterday, Victoria Derbyshire said, “we don’t use rubber bullets in the UK, we don’t know what they are”. Derbyshire, it seems, is unaware there are...
Netpol: Kettling at Black Lives Matter protest in London was disproportionate and unlawful
PHOTO: Black Lives Matter protesters gather outside Downing Street, 7 June 2020 (Michael Tubi / Shutterstock) PRESS STATEMENT: 8 JUNE 2020 The information we received from independent legal observers on the ground during Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend...