SOCPA Indymedia Features

The appeal by Democracy Village after last week's High Court ruling will be heard at 10.30am this Friday (9th July) at the appeals court. In the meantime the camp is still going on strong, havi...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2010/07/455227.html

THE FINAL NAIL IN THE SOCPA COFFIN? In May 2008, following an 18-week trial costing over £4.5 million, the operator of a website criticising animal testing, Sean Kirtley , was sentenced to fou...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2009/09/438407.html

With only ten days to go before the massive protests against the G20 summit taking place in London, the Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Human Rights accused British police of being heavy-...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2009/03/424946.html

On Saturday 6th September two hundred activists made it to Ledbury, Herefordshire, for the Carnival Against Vivisection in solidarity with political prisoner Sean Kirtley . The day of action was ...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2008/09/408433.html

One of Gordon Brown's first announcements when he became prime minister, was that the state would 'look again' at the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) clauses which affect the...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2008/01/389354.html

The Home Office has recently published a consultation paper which hints at what was really meant by Gordon Brown's promise to look again at the law which restricts demonstrations near parliament...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2007/11/386033.html

On 8th October, the day that the British Parliament resumed after its Summer recess, a thousands of anti-war protesters marched into Parliament Square. They were joined by people who demanded the...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2007/10/383878.html

Gordon Brown is facing an anti-war welcome during his first week in power, with little sign that he will break with Blair's disastrous foreign policy. A War Is Still the Issue camp was set up in...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2007/06/374524.html

At least 12 activists have now been charged under SOCPA in connection with the No More Fallujahs Peace Camp and Naming the Dead actions in Parliament Square and Whitehall on 29-30 October 2006....

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2007/05/371878.html

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) is a major piece of legislation, which established the Serious Organised Crime Agency, an FBI-like agency to tackle "serious organised cri...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2006/12/358676.html

"According to the Home Office there have been 1,379 demonstrations authorised under SOCPA in 18 months (1 Aug 2005 - Dec 2006). With your help we'd like to attempt to hold 2,000 demonstrations in...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2007/04/368522.html

Brian Haw's display was removed early in the morning of 23rd May by 50 police officers. At 2.45am they turned up and started to load a container with all the placards and banners and almost all o...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en//2006/05/340346.html