Everyday harassment
News about stop & search and arrests & release without charge
Police are planning to use an anti-terror law deemed unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights across the country during the London Olympics, The Times has learnt.
The ability of UK police to use "arbitrary" counter-terror stop and search powers against peace protesters and photographers lay in tatters today after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights. The Guardian.
Report by David Mery of a public meeting, Stop MI5 blackmail!, held at Camden Town Hall, 30 September 2009, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
This case illustrates the politics of 'anti-terror' powers: the police treat routine behaviour as suspicious, arbitrarily create 'terror suspects', and then escalate their harassment in order to justify the original 'suspicion'. This case is unusual only because the targeted person kept demanding a formal, public apology until the Met Police accommodated this demand for basic justice.
Stop-and-search and arrest & release without charge
For more information see:
Use of police stop-and-search powers under terror law surges, The Guardian, 1 May 2009
Racial profiling and anti-terror stop and search, Institute of Race Relations, 31 January 2006
Asian men targeted in stop and search: Huge rise in number questioned under anti-terror laws, The Guardian, 17 August 2005