National Security State
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Call-out: share your experiences of repressive protest policing in 2025
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 — NetPol Following the launch of “This is Repression”, our recent report analysing protests between January and December 2024, Netpol and the Article 11 Trust now seek evidence and testimony from protest organisers and participants covering events in 2025. Continue reading
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Police detain Cambridge academic who criticised Israel’s genocide
A British-Palestinian professor called Dr Makram Khoury-Machool was detained at Heathrow airport for over four hours, under Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Regulations 2019. The Christian academic was interrogated on Good Friday in front of his 8-year-old son. His phone, laptop, and identification were seized under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act. He was released without… Continue reading
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UK: Repeal the 2000 and 2006 Terrorism Acts and review other legislation
Monday, 21 April 2025 — The New Dark Age Please sign the petition to demand that the UK government repeal these laws that are being used to harass, prosecute and silence people whose opinions run counter to the government’s actions Sign the Petition Continue reading
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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military. Continue reading
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Who will become data controller of your medical notes in Wes’s World?
Speaking in Parliament, Wes Streeting said: “NHS England will be brought into the Department entirely”. Entirely is the key word, with consequences for decisions that have not yet been made. The abolition is a change that everyone thought beneficial but few expected before Wes Streeting first announced it two weeks ago and which surprised almost… Continue reading
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Fire! UK Legislation for Digital Gulag in Final Stages
It has taken a mere 30 years for the majority of the Western World to herd itself into a prison that mimics the mind – the software of a parallel digital universe called the World Wide Web. Epochal technological developments or cultural evolutions are often both gifts and curses. Time is the final arbiter of… Continue reading
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Booked your ticket for This Is Repression yet?
Our first annual “State of Protest” report documents not just the expansion of restrictions and oppressive policing on the streets in Britain, but an alarming package of state-supported measures designed to impose social control on protests on a scale reminiscent of the ‘war on terror’ two decades ago. Continue reading
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Britain: Operation Gladio’s Secret ‘Headquarters’
‘Operation Gladio’ is the collective name for a notorious Cold War-era program whereby Anglo-American intelligence services and NATO, in conjunction with mafia elements and fascist paramilitaries, constructed a pan-European nexus of clandestine “stay behind” armed resistance units. Their ostensible purpose was to remain ever-poised to respond to potential future Soviet invasion. In reality, these guerrilla… Continue reading
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“Operation Wrath of Zion” Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City
Steered by a “right-wing Zionist” organization, the campaign is using facial-recognition technology to intimidate and out activists demonstrating against Israel Continue reading
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Ali Abunimah “I’m Free!”
Ali Abunimah (https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1883973368069906853): I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. Continue reading
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Gaza protest: How Starmer and the Met have joined forces to quash all dissent
The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a decisive turning point. Continue reading
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Were you listed on the gangs matrix?
In January 2021, Awate Suleiman, UNJUST & Liberty launched a legal challenge against the Met Police over the racist Gangs Matrix. Days before the case was meant to be heard, the Met Police settled the claim, admitting that the Gangs Matrix breached people’s right to privacy. Continue reading
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Statewatch 13 December 2024: Our work in 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024 — Statewatch statewatch.org / X / Mastodon / BlueSky / LinkedIn / Facebook / RSS Issue 24/22, 13 December 2024 Welcome to the final edition of Statewatch News for 2024. Before we share our work from the last two weeks with you, we want to provide an overview of what we’ve… Continue reading
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The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed?
The Salisbury incident’s ever-fluctuating official narrative continues to shift radically, in ways large and small Continue reading
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15 Years of Resistance
In April 2009, police brutally attacked G20 protesters in London. Ian Tomlinson was struck over the head by a police baton, and died from his injuries minutes later. The massive policing operation that day was so violent that nearly 300 complaints were made against the police. Ian wasn’t a protester, he was a newspaper vendor who had been caught… Continue reading
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Section 12 means British police are treating their own officers as terrorists now
A police officer has been arrested by counter-terrorism police in Gloucester over social media posts regarding Israel and Palestine. It’s no longer just journalists and social media users that police are targeting, it’s their own officers now. Continue reading
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Are arms companies now “prohibited places”?
Campaigners have reported a concerning new police tactic to discourage protests against weapons manufacturers and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Continue reading
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Israeli born Jewish Professor had been arrested for terrorism speech
An Israeli born Jewish Professor had been arrested by the British police over alleged “terrorism”, after a pro-Palestine speech Continue reading
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After UK Police Raid, Journalist Asa Winstanley Focused On Stopping ‘Digital Strip-Search’ Of His Devices
London-based journalist Asa Winstanley says when British counter-terrorism police raided his home on October 17 they asked which electronic devices were personal and which were used for journalism. Continue reading
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