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The two-day preliminary hearing was to determine if the inquiry will be open and transparent or whether it will be a secret process, which would largely exclude both the public and non-state ‘core participants’. Jenny has applied for core participant status.
Continue reading “Jenny attends Public Inquiry into undercover policing”
Jenny joined 305 other peers to defeat the government in the House of Lords: they voted to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees into the UK from Europe.
Continue reading “Peers defeat government in vote on child refugees”
The smokescreen of Cameron’s statements about taking in vulnerable children from countries neighbouring Syria does nothing to hide the glaring reality that the many children who have a legal right to enjoy sanctuary in the UK are being left in Calais. The inhumane bulldozing of the ‘Jungle camp’ makes the plight of these children ever more desperate.
A visit to the ‘unrecognised’ refugee camp near Calais
“There is snow on the ground and it’s sleeting. I have arrived again in Calais to visit the unofficial refugee camp called The Jungle. I visited it first in late October last year. Continue reading “The Jungle in February, Jenny’s blog”
On Thursday 18 February Jenny will again visit The Jungle, Calais.
She said: ‘What is happening at the Jungle, where thousands of people have been effectively abandoned by governments and are being helped to stay alive only by the selfless actions of volunteers, would be an unacceptable outrage anywhere. That it is happening on the doorstep of the UK – the world’s fifth-wealthiest state – and France, the sixth richest, makes it a scandal which should engage us all.’
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A police officer working for a secretive Scotland Yard intelligence unit that monitors thousands of political campaigners has alleged that police improperly destroyed …
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Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and Jenny travelled to Calais to meet Emmanuelle Cosse, national secretary of France’s Europe Ecologie – Les Vertes, and Sandrine Rousseau, a Les Vertes spokesperson, at the camp known as ‘the Jungle’.
House of Lords 8th July 2015 – Jenny’s response to government report on investigatory powers.
Continue reading ““RIPA still authorises sexual relationships by state agents””
The government is proposing to defend freedom of speech by placing tough restrictions on people who have committed no crime, but whom they have labelled extremists.
This is not a new idea. I was until recently on a database for domestic extremists, despite having no convictions for any crime. The database included John Catt, an 89-year-old pensioner, who attended peace demonstrations with his sketch pad.
Continue reading “I was on a database for domestic extremists”
January 2015 – Report by Jenny Jones finds that the police have “overreached and misused their powers, aided by illiberal legislation that is not fit for purpose”.
Continue reading “The Surveillance State”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 