David Lidington tells Commons that Government will not allow a judge-led inquiry into UK’s complicity in detainee abuse during US-led torture programme
The Domestic Abuse Bill will be laid in Parliament today. We are deeply concerned that the Bill still fails to provide protection for migrant survivors of domestic abuse.
Following last year’s victory in which the European Court of Human Rights found the UK’s historic surveillance regime was illegal, a coalition of human rights groups will ask the Strasbourg Court’s Grand Chamber to go further in its judgment
An independent review of the Metropolitan Police’s trial of facial recognition technology has roundly criticised the force for failing to consider human rights impacts and for relying on an “inadequate” legal basis.
On 10 April 2018, Ealing Borough Council became the UK’s first local authority to use a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to ban protest activity outside of an abortion clinic.
The parliamentary committee tasked with scrutinising the draft Domestic Abuse Bill has recommended the Government puts into law a number of measures advocated by Liberty to protect migrant survivors.
We're in the High Court this week challenging mass surveillance powers given to State agencies under the Snoopers' Charter. We will argue that these powers breach our right to privacy and freedom of expression. Last week, as part of this litigation, MI5 admitted it has been unlawfully retaining people’s data obtained through the bulk powers we are challenging.
