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April 11, 2024

Explainer: criminalisation of poverty

July 2, 2018

Cardiff man gets go-ahead to bring first UK legal challenge to police use of facial recognition technology on the streets

Ed Bridges has been given the go-ahead to start the first legal challenge to a UK police force’s use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology, in what will be a critical nationwide test of the state’s power to deploy radical biometric surveillance methods.

June 13, 2018

Cardiff resident launches first UK legal challenge to police use of facial recognition technology in public spaces

June 6, 2018

Sajid Javid must shape his own legacy and bring an end to indefinite immigration detention

Every year the Home Office locks up nearly 30,000 people indefinitely.

January 21, 2020

COURT UPHOLDS “ENSHRINED FREEDOM” OF GYPSY AND TRAVELLER RIGHT TO ROAM

Court of Appeal rules that an injunction to prevent camping on public land would breach the rights of the communities it targeted

Liberty Timeline

Liberty was founded in 1934 as the National Council for Civil Liberties, and we have campaigned to protect and promote our fundamental rights and freedoms for 90 years.

October 5, 2021

The Government should be supporting our right to protest, not shutting it down

June 20, 2023

UK: SHUTTING DOWN OF PEACEFUL PROTEST REPRESENTS ‘EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH PROTEST POLICING’

Freedom of expression

We have the right to express ourselves freely and hold our own opinions – even if our views are unpopular or could upset or offend others.

May 21, 2019

Liberty client takes on police in ground-breaking facial recognition challenge – hearing opens today

December 4, 2018

Liberty launches “care don’t share” campaign and report

Liberty and National Education Union call for an end to government data-sharing practices.

July 24, 2018

Liberty’s analysis of today’s Shaw Review on immigration detention: “We need urgent action”

Stephen Shaw’s second review showed that there is still much more work to be done to halt the serious suffering caused by the routine use of indefinite detention.