There was a Channel 4 TV documentary Dispatches: Stealing Your Freedom shown on Monday 27th February 2006, which included a segment with Maya Evans and Peter Hitchins reading out some of the same names of British military casulaties in Iraq, at the same spot near the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where Maya was arrested and subsequently convicted under SOCPA section 132.
Illogically, since this action was part of a TV programme, starring a major newspaper political commntator, it was not deemed to be a protest or a "demonstration", and they were not arrested.
You can set your video recorders for the repeat showings of the documentary on:
- Channel 4 on Saturday 4th March 4.30am - 5:25am ,
- More4 Saturday 4th March, 8:10pm - 9:10pm,
- More4+1 Saturday 4th March, 9:10pm - 10:10pm
- Channel 4 Sunday 5th March 4:30am - 5:25am
04:30 Dispatches: Stealing Your FreedomPolitical commentator Peter Hitchens looks at how the recent avalanche of security legislation has affected the civil liberties of ordinary people in Britain. He argues that the government's measures, designed to protect us from crime and terrorism, are in fact a menace to freedom and not a threat to criminals.
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