Liberties
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Craig Murray Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison
Craig Murray, an ex-British ambassador and blogger, has been sentenced to eight months in prison after being found guilty in March of contempt of court during the 2020 trial of former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond. He was given three weeks to turn himself into police, pending his appeal. Judge Lady Dorrian issued the sentence,… Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Appeal For Defence Funds
On Friday I shall be sentenced, very possibly to prison, for contempt of court by “jigsaw identification”. While I do not believe anybody has ever been imprisoned for “jigsaw identification” before, my entire prosecution has been so perverse that I cannot imagine why they have done it unless that is the intention.] Continue reading
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Dr. Lee Merritt warns: Forced vaccines are a Holocaust-level crime against humanity
Medical systems are threatening doctors and nurses with termination if they do not comply with the forced vaccines. Universities are threatening to withhold education from students if they do not comply. Corporations are threatening to segregate people from venues, flights and other social gatherings if they do not comply. Governors like Gretchen Whitmer have turned… Continue reading
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#KillTheBill Netpol calls for anti-fracking campaigners to share their experiences with MPs and peers
Netpol is encouraging campaigners who for years have fought to stop fracking in their communities to share their experiences of the oppressive and violent policing at protests with Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. Continue reading
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Good Law Project: Are you free next Tuesday, 11 May?
On Tuesday lunchtime, Good Law Project is hosting a defamation advice session for activists, organisations and campaigners. Continue reading
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The Criminalization of Dissent
One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite… Continue reading
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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the… Continue reading
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Revealed: UK Campaign to Force Assange From Ecuadorian Embassy
A wide-ranging UK government campaign was brought to bear on Ecuador to press it to hand over WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, new information by Declassified UK reveals. Continue reading
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EVENT Friday, 1:00 PM: “Sensing Injustice” book launch
JOIN MICHAEL TIGAR, AUTHOR OF SENSING INJUSTICE: A LAWYER’S LIFE IN THE BATTLE FOR CHANGE, IN CONVERSATION WITH…. Continue reading
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Urgent Briefing: Why We All Have a Duty to Kill The Bill
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSC) threatens to undermine our fundamental rights and our safety, and implicates health workers in the expansion of violent police powers. Medact and Docs Not Cops have joined the Kill The Bill Coalition to stand in solidarity with everyone targeted by the Bill and fight back against these… Continue reading
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Submission: Clapham Common and Bristol Protests
15 April 2021 — NetPol Riot officers outside Bristol police station, 22 March 2021. PHOTO: Miles Cooper Submission to the Inquiry Into Respect For The Constitutional Rights To Free Expression And Free Assembly At The Clapham Common Vigil On 13 March 2021 And The Bristol Protests In March 2021. Continue reading
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Figures reveal scale of Bristol protesters injured by police
At least 62 people injured by police violence in Bristol, new figures reveal. With significant misreporting from the media Bristol #KillTheBill protests, including false reports from Avon and Somerset police that officers had received injuries including broken bones, Bristol Defendant Solidarity have been recording instances of police violence and injuries sustained by people attending the… Continue reading
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WATCH: CN Live! — 2 Yrs After Arrest: ‘Lawmakers for Assange’; Exclusive: Labor Party Resolution of Support
On the 2nd anniversary of the arrest, Australian MPs joined CN Live! to tell PM Scott Morrison to pick up the phone and tell Joe Biden to release Julian Assange. Watch the replay here. Continue reading
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Why we must oppose vaccine passports
The vaccine passport is the nadir of ‘permission slip’ officialdom. It means that before you can go to the cinema, or a football match, or perhaps even to work, you must first have obtained official clearance. Continue reading
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UK: The end of civil liberty as we know it
Mission creep is defined as ‘the tendency for a task… to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives’. The government’s initial mission, when introducing Covid-19 restrictions across the UK, was to save lives and to ensure that the NHS was not overwhelmed, not destroy our civil liberty. Now, it is considering introducing a new… Continue reading
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Know Your Rights: Fixed Penalty Notices and Protests
One of the potential consequences for people taking part in protests against the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, or other protests in the coming months, is receiving a fixed penalty notice (FPN) for allegedly breaching health protection regulations. Continue reading
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Privacy: End game for end-to-end encryption
Last week, Wired has reported that the Home Office is actively exploring legal and technical mechanisms to compel Facebook and WhatsApp to break end-to-end encryption messaging. Continue reading
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Meet the Censored: U.S. Right to Know
“A nonprofit that investigates Genetically Modified Organisms and the origins of Covid-19 is the latest to see its traffic plunge after a search engine update,” writes Matt Taibbi in TK News. Taibbi reports on the dramatic drop in web traffic U.S. Right to Know experienced after Google’s last core algorithm update in early December – for… Continue reading
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‘Kill the Bill’ protests continue across UK against Tory police bill
Protests have intensified across the UK demanding the withdrawal of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill proposed by the Tory government. On March 31, hundreds of people participated in the Kill the Bill protest in Bristol. Mobilizations were also held in Manchester and Sheffield on March 27. According to reports, in several places the… Continue reading
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The cruelties we have inflicted on children under Covid-19 are unethical and immoral, we’re devastating a whole generation
A year of lockdowns, mask-wearing, isolation and depriving youngsters from seeing friends and grandparents has caused a surge in kids committing suicide, self-harming and suffering other mental health issues. It needs to end. The 24/7, sensationalist media we have been subjected to for the past year is a major cause for anxiety, fear, depression and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 