Cuts to education in prisons are derailing offenders’ work and training and ultimately endangering the public, says chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

'A separate case brought against the Home Office by Privacy International, Liberty and two individuals, which challenges the lawfulness of the technical capability notice, is expected to continue.' www.computerweekly.com/news/3666325...

Niece of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan woman allegedly murdered by a former British army soldier, is to visit the UK to meet the defence secretary and other MPs to push for the man's extradition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ms Wanjiru's family has long accused the British army of covering up her death

Laura Murton, a protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide,” has received an apology from police, including for unlawful false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, 13th Oct 10am, starting with 3 days of opening statements, online only. This will be 3rd Tranche of hearings, which will look at deployments of Special Demonstration Squad officers from 1993 until that unit was closed in 2007 youtube.com/@undercoverp...

A group of Cambridgeshire Police officers who shared racist, misogynistic and offensive messages with each other on a WhatsApp group would not have stopped had they not been uncovered, a disciplinary hearing concluded www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

A domestic violence victim cannot sue a police force and the Crown Prosecution Service after her new address was disclosed to her abuser by a barrister in court, because of the "extension" of the immunity given to advocates in court, the Court of Appeal has ruled www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nick Gratwick, who was found guilty on Friday of 38 paedophile offences and schemed to rape children as young as six, was revealed at his trial to have been a police informer who spied on environmental and animal rights activists @robevansgdn.bsky.social
#Spycops www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Paul Stephenson OBE was a cornerstone of British civil rights.

From the Bristol Bus Boycott to decades of campaigning, he pushed the nation toward justice and equality.

A fearless legacy worth honouring.

#BHM2025 #BlackHistoryMonth

The interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has announced a ‘full professional inspection’ of the body’s case work by the CPS inspectorate, following criticism over failures in high-profile miscarriages of justice and long delays to investigations
www.thejusticegap.com/miscarriage-...

British Transport Police officer PC Adrian Young, who put a 15-year-old girl in a headlock during an arrest, has been found guilty of assault www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEW from Liberty Investigates:

UK universities have offered to monitor students social media accounts for arms companies concerned about campus protests

Full story below

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Vital work of museum of homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social
bringing to light the shocking reality of deaths of people experiencing homelessness. museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

A Gloucestershire police officer who
transferred to the county earlier this year has been suspended pending a misconduct investigation after appearing in a BBC Panorama investigation that exposed racism and misogyny at Charing Cross Police Station www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are you worried or confused about the proposed law to restrict 'cumulative protests'?

We've contributed to this article breaking down your protest rights and what this new law could mean

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🗞️ October 2025 Newsletter is out!

All of this month's latest updates including:

🟣 Landmark introduction of Hillsborough Law to Parliament
🟣Urgent amendments to Mental Health Bill to safeguard children
🟣Fatal consequences of racist immigration policies

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Trialling the return of sus laws, are we? Tory party policy proposals on stop and search policing seek to drag us backwards 40 years
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Clearsprings Ready Homes, a company providing accommodation to asylum seekers, has made nearly £187m in profits since being awarded lucrative government contracts, despite allegations of terrible conditions at the hotels it uses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.

Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

A firearms officer used excessive force when he shot dead 28-year-old Jermaine Baker in December 2015, a police misconduct hearing has been told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amnesty UK condemns the horrific attack on the East Sussex Mosque this weekend.

We offer solidarity to Muslim communities who will be shaken by this act of violence.

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⚠️ Introducing new powers to restrict our fundamental right to protest is not the answer

During times of fear people understandably want to see action, but restricting protest further is likely to fuel tensions by taking away legal and safe ways for people to make their voices heard

Police already have huge powers to restrict protests.

Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.