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From: "Bob W" <p...@web-options.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 8:29 AM
To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net>
Subject: Photographers not terrorists
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
Do you think it will do some good, or will it be ignored on the streets and
end up being same old.
William Robb
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