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  • May Day Riots (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Louise Bloom
    • Meeting date: 01 January 2001
    Perhaps would you also like to comment on press reports that the director of the civil rights group Liberty, on behalf of 150 people who were held penned up in Oxford Street is possibly going to demand a judicial review of police tactics used on the day and could possibly sue for false imprisonment and breaches of the Human Rights Act. I personally know somebody who was penned up in Oxford Street on that day, [laughter] yes, who was there protesting totally peaceably, was not dressed up as a Womble or anything else, not armed, had nothing about her person...