Spending the night on the pavement outside the Bahraini embassy in London, marking the 15th anniversary of arrest of Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja. He & others unjustly jailed in 2011 for peaceful protests remain in prison @maryamalkhawaja.bsky.social @nickkristof.bsky.social

Excited to announce this amazing line-up for our event next week in London: End Zero Accountability: End the crackdown on protest in London Hosted by @waronwant.bsky.social secure.waronwant.org/page/189508/...

As Qesser was arrested for encouraging nonviolent direct action, I would like to encourage everyone to break into airfields to disarm planes imminently bound for use in war crimes. This is of course legal, as the court found in my case. Happy to advise how to do it. bsky.app/profile/netp...

We are now in the public gallery for the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, waiting for questions on protest rights in the capital

We are excited to announce our second annual State of Protest 2025 report: How Repression Became Routine. The report launches with a free livestream on Wed 25 Mar 2026 7:00-8:30 pm GMT. Link in bio to book OR www.tickettailor.com/events/netpo...

This Guardian puff-piece on Labour's Yvette Cooper is not how history will judge the current Foreign Secretary. This is...

Flying the flag: less than 48 hours after police raided our meeting house (again), Westminster Quakers were among the thousands marching today against the US, UK and Israeli war on Iran. @quaker.org.uk

Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes—the direct action group who helped women get the vote—protest in Trafalgar Square, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police & courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity.

STATEMENT 1/ Last night, the Metropolitan Police raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again. This time, they targeted Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests.

There are Quaker Meetings who do less effective Outreach than the Met are doing for us.

Excuse my unspiritual language but fuck this shit.

Deeply worrying if true.

On section 60AA (covering your face): check out the excellent briefing from @netpol.org telling you everything you need to know. Remember! The police DO NOT have the right to demand the removal of any face coverings in public UNLESS a section 60AA order is in place 😷 netpol.org/2026/02/27/s...

A thread: ‘If Palestine Action are terrorists then so is Jesus’ - How we ended up supporting the Palestine Action judicial review. In 2017 Reverend Woody & I broke into BAE Warton to disarm Saudi war planes being used to bomb Yemen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Let's remember that when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was committing hideous crimes... ... He was doing it largely on behalf of the British arms industry. The arms industry is just as corrupt today. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Resign in disgrace 3 more times and you can be like your idol Mandy! He'll be back. Labour loves a soulless ghoul.

Six Palestine Action activists were cleared today of aggravated burglary over a protest at an Israeli weapons firm in 2024. The jury also cleared three defendants of violent disorder and failed to reach a verdict on a GBH charge – charges that are the basis of the group's labelling as "terrorists"

Filton24: Jury acquits or refuses to convict defendants

The amazing @rogergeffen.bsky.social giving evidence to the #SpyCops Inquiry about Reclaim the Streets. Right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Et...

Netpol stands in solidarity with US Legal Observers facing brutal repression from ICE agents and police. We send our love & rage to the family & comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she & her wife sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted in their home city.

Congratulations to the Stansted15, current record holders (781 days) for the shortest time as terrorists in the UK. You beat Nelson Mandela (911 days)! But watch out! P&le$tine Action could nab the record off you any day! I even made a graph: www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4

Met police agrees to pay £7500 to a woman arrested for "suspicion of committing a religious or racial offence" in November 2023 over her Gaza protest placard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This happens *all the time*. Cops do what they want and it doesn't even occur to them that they might need a legal basis for their actions until they're actively challenged - and even then they carry on regardless.

Shout out to @samwalton.bsky.social

On the fifth day of ACAB, my true love said to me... "NO CAUTION – a caution is a legal admission of guilt – it's an easy win for the police" #12DaysOfACAB

Excited for this training next week!!

In the run up to Netpol's winter fundraiser on 13/12 #ACABDay, we'll be celebrating the 12 days of #ACAB! Every day we're sharing a key piece of Know Your Rights information for protest movements and political organisers. Beause all we want for Christmas is... an end to police repression.

The government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as ‘subversion’ netpol.org/2025/11/28/g...

Power has concentrated on the hands of the rich. No surprise there. What really strikes me is how weak the entire left are when it comes to policy ideas for how to break up media ownership. "Encouraging ownership diversity" won't cut it. Any ideas anyone? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Once again, the Metropolitan Police has demanded last minute changes to a Palestine Coalition march this weekend and imposed unnecessary conditions, which is deliberately disruptive and keeps no-one safer palestinecampaign.org/palestine-co...

Counter terrorism legislation has been used throughout my adult life to silence my friends. This Palestine Action ban is nothing new. It is inherently Islamophobic. My latest for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: share.google/nSwzuvGqJyzS...

Supreme Court today: Government of Bahrain is challenging the decision to lift its diplomatic immunity in a hacking case that caused psychiatric injury to two dissidents. Oh dear #Bahrain. You screwed up big time. Press release: www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...

The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic, writes one of Netpol's founders, Sam Walton, for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Here are the Royal Courts of Justice for the Palestine Action judicial review

The BBC here, reprinting a police press release. In reality, police officers unlawfully threatened antifascists with demands for personal details using powers under Exeter's Public Space Protection Order introduced to crack down on street drinking and "aggressive begging" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Latest article on arms industry complicity in Andrew’s abuse of women and girls: "That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons." www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

The only coverage on the Andrew Windsor story worth reading. Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.

Front page of this morning's 'The National'. "Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report". The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests

Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...

Amazing pro-Palestine protests at the Vuelta today. It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating. Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next! #Vuelta25

LETS GO!

REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website. Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.

Not the biggest fan of the police? Good at running shit? Well now, we have something for you.

This morning had been extremely serious for the future of protest rights, but it's still really hard not to laugh at the respected lawyer who presented South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice talking about a new protest group called 'Yvette Cooper'

"Westminster continues to exist inside a bubble: one where fringe groups like ‘We Believe in Israel’ and loud partisan cranks like Lord Walney are heard... but where the anger and resentment across Britain about the massacre of children in Gaza, every night on our television screens, is ignored"

🚨BREAKING His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirms continued reincarnations and reaffirms that Tibetans will have the sole authority to recognise all future Dalai Lamas.

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...