NEW from Liberty Investigates:

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

Full story below

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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

Read more 🔽

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.

A coroner has ruled the Home Office missed opportunities to assess the mental health of asylum seeker Leonard Farruku before he was moved on to the Bibby Stockholm where he took his own life www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, with possible strengthening of powers to ban some protests outright. This follows previous restrictions including protest-related measures in the crime and policing bill going through parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just out - our report on the #spycops public inquiry's questioning of Malcolm MacLeod, the unit's boss in the mid 1980s. Ludicrously self-contradictory, he admitted 'it's really, really difficult to defend the indefensible.' He still tried. campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/10/04/u...

“These harmful policies isolate people from community, support and healthcare, and deny them dignity. Amid racist rhetoric around immigration, we must remember the real human cost.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

A sergeant at Charing Cross police station has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice over allegation linked to Panorama investigation showing officers calling for immigrants to be shot, revelling in use of force & being dismissive of rape claims www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A René Cassin statement…

We are pleased to announce that Head of our Civil Liberties & Human Rights Team, Susie Labinjoh, has been honoured in the much-coveted “Leading Partner” category in the newly published #Legal5002026 Guide, an accolade reflecting her exceptional service to her clients over two decades.

#Legal500

We’re delighted to have once again been recognised as one of the UK’s leading teams in the Legal 500 UK 2026 Guide, maintaining Top Tier ranking in ‘Civil Liberties and Human Rights’, as well as our ranking for ‘Administrative and Public Law’.

#Legal5002026 #Legal500 #HJA #Teamwork

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honour those who stood firm so others could stand tall.

Throughout October we’ll be highlighting inspiring individuals and sharing reflections on Black excellence in law, culture & more.

Let’s celebrate resilience, pride, & power together.

Did you know that for the past 25 years, there's a law that's been quietly defending your rights every day?

That's the Human Rights Act at work

Happy Birthday to the HRA 🎉

Serving Metropolitan Police officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in footage captured by a Panorama undercover reporter who spent seven months in the custody suite of Charing Cross www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...