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UK civil liberties

May 2024

  • Police officers prepare to move protesters surrounding a bus that was to be used to carry migrants from a hotel in Peckham, London, earlier this month.

    The Guardian view on peaceful protests: the high court has preserved a fundamental right

  • A police officer argues with protesters

    Suella Braverman acted unlawfully by making it easier to criminalise protests, court rules

  • Trudi Warner, 68, (third from left) from Walthamstow, east London

    Solicitor general to appeal over case of climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

  • A voter at the polling station at Datchet Hall in Datchet, Berkshire.

    Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections

  • The IPP scandal
    Unfair jail sentences – one more example of demonising society’s ‘morally unfit’

    Kenan Malik

  • The IPP scandal
    Nearly 3,000 people are languishing in jail unfairly. We must set them free

    Bob Neill

April 2024

  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Images.

    The IPP scandal
    The torture of being trapped by indefinite prison sentences

  • Scott Rider, as a child and adult, who was convicted in 2005, said he had lost hope he would ever be freed.

    The IPP scandal
    ‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

  • Illustrated portrait of Tommy Nicol.

    The IPP scandal
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?

  • Trudi Warner outside the high court in London.

    Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights

March 2024

  • Police Spies Out of Lives projected on to London's Garrick Club in November 2020

    'Spy cops' scandal
    Can a Garrick member chair an inquiry into police sexism fairly? I have my doubts

    Alison
    Sir John Mitting will rule on whether undercover officers broke the law by deceiving women into romantic relationships. He needs to cancel his membership, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives
  • uk security staff sitting in front of computers

    Phantom Parrot review – eye-opening documentary about Orwellian surveillance in the UK

    The arrest of a British Muslim who refused to give up his phone password to UK border police kicks off Kate Stonehill’s look at the state’s excessive intrusion into our privacy

    • The Guardian view on Gove and extremism: this definition is a problem, not a solution

    • Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’

    • Hunt announces funds for police to use drones as ‘first responders’

February 2024

  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wave Palestinian flags and hold placards in Parliament Square, London

    Why does Rishi Sunak want to clamp down on protests?

  • A line of police at a large pro-Palestinian demonstration in London in October

    Mass protests in London put other police priorities at risk, MPs warn

  • A person stands in front of a window covered in orange pain holding an orange cylinder with the words 'Just Stop Oil' on it

    ‘Assault on rights of juries’: activist decries Tory challenge to legal defence for protesters

  • People take part in a march in Manchester calling for a free Palestine and an end to the conflict in Gaza.

    Masked protesters could soon face arrest, says Home Office

December 2023

  • Katy Watts

    Surveillance Britain: where police are quietly trying to access 50m photos for one mass lineup

    Katy Watts
    A sneaky provision in the criminal justice bill seeks to extend the use of deeply intrusive facial recognition technology, says Liberty lawyer Katy Watts
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