Photo Rights Rally, New Scotland Yard
Feb. 16th, 2009 03:55 pmMark Thomas addresses the Photo Rights Rally to mark the implementation of the newly-inserted s.58A Terrorism Act 2000, which potentially criminalises photography of police (and certainly makes it activity suspicious enough to warrant stop and search).
More photos here.
More photos here.

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Date: 2009-02-16 04:05 pm (UTC)How many people were there?
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Date: 2009-02-16 04:11 pm (UTC)At a guess, I would say there were two or three hundred people along between 11 and 11.30.
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Date: 2009-02-16 04:19 pm (UTC)I was surprised at the degree of fuckwittery of people to roads and traffic when taking photos at the only Anonymous gathering I've managed to get to, so police management of such errors seems fully justified.
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Date: 2009-02-16 07:10 pm (UTC)