Stephen Lawrence
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Revealed: UK police spy who infiltrated Palestine solidarity By Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada is publishing the first photos of the police spy who infiltrated a Palestine solidarity group in the UK 15 years ago. As we reported in December, the spy was an officer with the “anti-terrorist” Special Demonstration Squad. Continue reading
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UK police demand Channel 4 hand over whistle-blower’s footage By Robert Stevens
British police have stepped up their efforts to seize material from the Channel 4 TV station relating to their broadcasting of revelations provided by former UK intelligence operative and whistle-blower Peter Francis. In recent years Francis has provided material to Channel 4 and the Guardian newspaper revealing that Britain’s intelligence services and police have organised… Continue reading
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Doreen Lawrence, police spies and institutional racism By Adam Elliott-Cooper
Allegations of police spying on anti-racism groups shed new light on the meaning and operation of ‘institutional racism’. Here, Adam Elliott-Cooper reflects on the Stephen Lawrence Campaign and the MacPherson Report. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (12/13) UK News
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. UK: The IPCC has today published their annual statistics on deaths during or following police contact 2. UK: Independent Police Complaints Commission report (IPPC): Metropolitan Police Service handling of complaints alleging race discrimination Continue reading
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‘British police secretly operated outside democratic control for years’
Peter Francis revealed that 20 years ago he had worked as an undercover cop in the Metropolitan Police Force’s secret Special Demonstrations Squad (SDS). Francis said he was tasked to dig up dirt which the Met could use to discredit the family of murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, and thereby derail their campaign for a… Continue reading
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