User 'anonymous' did: report at Sat Aug 22 00:29:44 +0000 2009.<br/>truetrue172009-04-04T15:09:56+00:00/system/video/2009/04/04/1055/humanrightscourtcall.mov10556594152featured2pfm<p>Speaker at Getting to the Truth march denounces campaign to label protesters criminal and terrorist and announces that people are going to the European Court for Human Rights to challenge the Police Policy of Containment, because it is dangerous, it causes crushing on the inside, it's draconian and it's against the democratic right to protest.<br /><br />Call for people, who have been held in containment during the last week, to come forward as witnesses.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1057" title="pics and report">Pictures</a> and <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/videos/1054" title="video">Video</a> of the march.</p>
<p><i>To everyone who wants to reply to this call for witnesses:</i> We have not been able to find a contact where people can do so. As soon as we will, it will be published here. If you do think of coming forward as a witness, please write a detailed statement of what you witnessed, if you have not already done so. The Legal Support of the Climate Camp has issued a general <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1069" title="Climate Camp legal update">call out</a> for witness statements.</p>
<p>There is also an <a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/kettling/" title="online petition">online petition</a> to outlaw kettling, that can now be signed.</p>
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<p><strong>Press Review on Kettling: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Times: </strong><br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6005080.ece" title="times">Police at G20 will be tense, despite months of planning</a><br />March 31, 2009<br />Andy Hayman is former Assistant Commissioner Special Operations at the Metropolitan Police<br />"A protest on the move is harder to police than a stationary rally. Protesters will be prevented from running as this raises the risk of injury to innocent bystanders, the police and other demonstrators. "<br /><br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6025481.ece" title="times">Why did the police punish bystanders?</a><br />April 3, 2009<br />Commentary: Tom Whipple <br />"The police should not have the authority to enact collective punishment. Just as the people who attacked the officers were idiots, so the actions of the police made that violence inevitable."<br /><br /><br /><strong>Guardian: </strong><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/g20-protests-police-kettling" title="guardian">G20: Did police containment cause more trouble than it prevented?</a><br />Thursday 2 April 2009<br />Duncan Campbell<br />"The upshot of the ruling and the police's application of their "kettle" formula is that people thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/g20-protests-police-tactics" title="guardian">Baton charges and kettling: police's G20 crowd control tactics under fire</a><br />Friday 3 April 2009 <br />Sandra Laville and Duncan Campbell <br />"O'Brien said the cordons were put in place because a group of about 200 people were violent. "There was no real deliberate attempt to say you are all going to stay here for hours," he said."<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/g20-protests-police-kettling" title="guardian"><br />Did the handling of the G20 protests reveal the future of policing?</a><br />Friday 3 April 2009 <br />Duncan Campbell<br />"But how much of the trouble as the day wore on could have been avoided by policing that didn't involve containment? And what does this mean for the future of protesting? Does this mean that anyone wanting to go on a demonstration in the future needs to be prepared to be detained for eight hours, photographed and identified?"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/apr/02/g20-protest" title="Guardian Video">G20 protests: 'I don't know who is being protected here'</a><br />Thursday 2 April 2009<br />John Domokos, Laurence Topham, Christian Bennett, John D McHugh, Felix Clay <br /><br /><br /><strong>Comment is Free:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/apr/02/g20-protest-climate-camp" title="comment is free">G20: The police ruined a peaceful protest</a><br />2 April 2009<br />Beth McGrath<br />"As their batons came down, legal observers called out to people to take the police numbers of those who had hurt protesters. En masse, the line of police all covered up their badges. It was a chilling show of a police force unaccountable to their own laws, and their own humanity."</p>
<p><strong>Policitcs.co.uk</strong><br /> <a href="http://www.politics.co.uk/analysis/policing-and-crime/analysis-when-can-police-use-g20-tactics--$1286125.htm" title="poltics.co.uk">Analysis: When can police use G20 Tactics?</a><br /> "It is, however, very difficult to get any information from the police about when and why the strategy is implemented.<br /> Neither Acpo, nor the Met, nor Scotland Yard itself were willing to discuss the scenarios in which they activate the power."</p>Kettles to be brought to Human Rights Court 2009-08-22T00:29:44+00:00