An alliance of people spied on by Britain's political secret police
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is in crisis. Over-running by years before it has even begun, with a new Chair who has more hearings in secret than in public, victims and the wider public are finding themselves shut out.
As the Inquiry sifts through the spycops deciding which ones get anonymity, it seems to make no difference what victims say, the professional liar police officers are taken at their word.
At the last hearing, the victims and their entire legal team walked out, saying there was no point in participating in the anonymity process.
“We are not prepared actively to participate in a process where the presence of our clients is pure window dressing, lacking all substance, lacking all meaning and which would achieve absolutely nothing other than lending this process the legitimacy that it doesn’t have and doesn’t deserve.”
It is over seven years since the undercover policing scandal broke, creating shock that the police could commit such abuses against social, animal, and environmental justice campaigners in our country. We have waited long enough. We want answers. We want the names of the officers who spied, and we want the list of groups they infiltrated and monitored.
On Wednesday 9 May the Inquiry is holding another preliminary hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Starting at 10am, it will conclude by 4pm. It will cover the more applications for anonymity by former spycops..
It is people like you, taking a stand for your right to campaign for positive change without being abused by the state, that will change history, making sure these abuses come to light and are prevented from ever happening again. Without public support, the police may get away with hiding what has happened, and be able to continue their abuses.
We will be outside the Royal Courts of Justice from 9am on Wednesday 9 May.
Come along to the picket and stand with the core participants to support their demands that the Inquiry releases the cover names, and opens up the files on people who have been spied upon.
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