After
8 years of demanding to see our police files, blacklisted union activists
represented by the Blacklist Support Group and Imran Khan KC have finally
started to receive some disclosure from the public inquiry. Restriction Orders
mean we are not allowed to tell anybody what is in the documents until they are
discussed at the evidence hearings. But we are allowed to say that 100s of
pages of Special Branch reports and police witness statements have already been
disclosed, relating to our trade union and political campaigning. Much more
disclosure is expected to be drip fed out over the next few weeks.
The inquiry has also sent a list of questions for each core participant to answer. The current inquiry imposed deadline for the written responses is March. It is expected that each witness statement is likely to be a 10-20,000 word count. This is clearly going to take some time. The BSG has a stand-alone witness statement of its own. We thank all those who have contributed with suggestions of what should be in it.
Finally, the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance is the umbrella campaign set up & supported by BSG and our sister campaigns & the vast majority of non-police core participants. https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.comCOPS has a financial appeal to assist with costs for reporting the inquiry. This is especially important given that most of the mainstream media has barely published or broadcast a word on the recent evidence hearings. If your union committee (or any individual) wants to support the work of the COPS campaign, please donate via this link:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/BWSTSWTMH2ZV8
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