Metropolitan

MET Police Confirm Journalists Data No longer Retained

PHNAT welcomes the conclusion of the long-running National Union of Journalists (NUJ) “Domestic Extremist” legal case. The case that spanned some 12 years involved six NUJ members comprising of journalists, photographers, videographers and data that was being held on them on a police database.

Between 2013 and 2014 they discovered surveillance logs of themselves and their professional work was being retained on the Metropolitan Police Domestic Extremist database, along with thousands of political activists, lawyers and politicians.

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Police Threaten Press With Arrest Under Public Order Act

Photographers rights campaign group I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist (PHNAT) is shocked to learn the Metropolitan police were repeatedly caught attempting to use Section 14 (S14) of the Public Order Act to obstruct UKPCA press card carrying photographers and broadcast news cameras from covering arrests at the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London.

The alarm was first raised by photographer Mark Kerrison, who was covering arrests at a peaceful lock-on protest in Oxford Circus on Saturday 20 April, in scenes not witnessed since the 2009 G20 London summit.

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