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23-03-2016

Undercover police spied on me. Who else did they do it to?


I am one of seven women who won an apology from the Metropolitan police in November 2015. We sued them after learning that we had been deceived into having intimate, long-term relationships with men who turned out to be undercover police officers. - The Guardian, 23 March 2016

The police spied on us because we were involved in environmental and social justice groups. As well as a profound interference with our rights to privacy and family life, their actions denied our rights to freedom of expression and protest – both vital in a society that purports to be open and democratic.

But despite these admissions and apologies, the police have never made any disclosure about what happened, or how and why. In two cases they have refused to confirm the names of our ex-partners, even after we discovered their real identities and provided conclusive proof.

 

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