[via Parliament-Square.org.uk]:
IMPORTANT SOCPA APPEAL IN THE HIGH COURTThursday 16th and Friday 17th November 2006, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, WC2A 2LL, 10am
Demonstration of support outside the court from 9.30am - please bring banners.
Four people convicted under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 for demonstrating without authorisation in the protest exclusion zone around Parliament will be appealing in the High Court. Maya Evans, Steve Blum, Aquil Shaer and Milan Rai will be appealing against their convictions on points of law including the compatibility of the ban on unauthorised protests with the Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
This is the first court hearing at which the SOCPA law itself will come under significant scrutiny. Please come along and show your support for the SOCPA convicts.
According to the The Daily Cause List, these appeals will be held in Court Number 1:
COURT 1Before LORD JUSTICE WALLER and MR JUSTICE LLOYD JONES
Thursday 16 November, 2006
At half past 10Applications for Permission
CO/9254/2006 The Queen on the application of Choudhury v Central Criminal CourtFOR HEARING Appeal by way of Case Stated
CO/2218/2006 Evans v DPPFOR HEARING Appeal by way of Case Stated
CO/2849/2006 Shaer v DPPFOR HEARING Appeal by way of Case Stated
CO/2894/2006 Blum v DPPFOR HEARING Appeal by way of Case Stated
CO/5557/2006 Rai v Crown Prosecution Service
Of course they want to stop free assembly.
We are living in a police state. At a time when the old are being killed in their beds - as my own father was using the NHS - in 2004; when dementia drugs are being denied to those in need; when babies are about to be killed off if born too soon; when solicitors are constantly encouraged to act illegally and are then protected; when there is no justice through our Courts; why would they want anyone protesting?
The worst aspect of this is that MOST people do not protest. Why? Because half of the working population works for either local or national government. The whole working population is tied by the need keep their jobs, to feed mortgage bills.
Being selfish they leave people like us to protest in total isolation - until it happens to them.
And - as a follow on to my last post - the police in South Yorkshire have now acted in a totally corrupt manner following my father's killing, by refusing to investigate his well-documented killing for more than two and a half years.
Are other police forces as corrupt?
These 4 appeals have been lost !