w00t! There is still hope. Thanks for sharing Ecke 2010/7/8 Bob W <p...@web-options.com>: > Section 44 of the Terrorism Act has been used in recent years to stop & > search people, including photographers, illegally. Today the government > announced that it is bringing the legislation into line with the ruling of > the European court. This means that the police can no longer use Section 44 > in the way they were using it before, and can only stop & search people now > under Section 43, which requires a *reasonable suspicion* that the person is > a terrorist - taking photographs is normally unlikely to be a reasonable > suspicion. > > This is good news for human rights in the UK, including us specifically as > photographers, and a triumph for the people who originally brought the case > in front of the courts. > > < http://photographernotaterrorist.org/ > > < http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10555430.stm > > > It's still illegal under Section 72 to "elicit information about a police > officer". They use this to try and stop people photographing cops. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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