Fitwatch - www.fitwatch.org.uk - is now up and running again, hopefully somewhere where the Met can't feel their collar.
just a reminder: Forward Intelligence Teams collect information on activists who have not necessarily committed any crime - they're just activists, like the ones who put their lives on the line to achieve, amongst other things, the right to vote and equal rights for women.
They're part of ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers, which is a private company (mostly funded directly by the Home Office, so it's in essence a government body) and as such exempt from Freedom of Information act requests. hard to believe, but true. if that sounds like something from a police state, well...?
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