UK human rights being ‘eroded’, warn dozens of groups in landmark letter Exclusive: Liberty, Unison and Mermaids among groups sending ‘distress signal’ as UN begins living standards probe
Activists jailed for seven weeks for defying ban on mentioning climate crisis Insulate Britain members have been found guilty of ignoring a judge's ban on telling a jury why they were protesting
Insulate Britain trio could face jail for mentioning climate crisis in court Climate activists will be tried for telling a jury that the climate emergency led them to stage a road-block protest
Rent decision by Supreme Court will ‘allow criminal landlords to exploit tenants’ Britain’s highest court has maintained that certain landlords don't have to pay back rent if tenancy rules are broken
‘For history to judge, not the jury’: judge rules climate crisis ‘irrelevant’ Judge Silas Reid has again ruled that protesters can’t address the climate emergency in their legal defence
Prisoners still being locked up for 23 hours a day despite record self-harm Prisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn
What the ‘Spycops’ inquiry isn’t telling us about state infiltration The undercover policing inquiry is downplaying spying on trade unions and government involvement in blacklisting