Yvette Cooper has been accused by the Free Speech Union of suggesting everyone arrested in connection with the recent disorder is guilty. The Telegraph has more.
In a letter to Ms. Cooper, the Free Speech Union raised concerns that the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, risked prejudicing the trials of those yet to appear in court.
The message was posted by the official Home Office account on Aug 14 after two weeks of unrest in British towns and cities.
It contained a graphic saying there had been more than 1,000 arrests underneath the caption: “These criminals will face the full force of the law.”
These criminals will face the full force of the law
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) August 14, 2024pic.twitter.com/HXOHzjCwYT
Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, warned the tweet risked breaching the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
In the letter he said Ms. Cooper was “ultimately responsible” for the content of the Home Office’s account and should order the deletion of the post.
He wrote: “We are concerned that this post referred to all the people who have been arrested in connection with the recent public disorder as ‘criminals’, including those who have not been charged, or who have been charged but have pleaded not guilty and have not yet been tried.
“For example, one of our members, the 55-year-old woman who was arrested last week for wrongly identifying the attacker in Southport as an asylum seeker on X, has not been charged or made any admission of guilt.
“If she is charged, and if she pleads not guilty, we fear that there may be a risk that her trial is prejudiced because some of the jurors in her case may be one of the 2.3 million people who have seen the X post.”
Worth reading in full.
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Wait til they find out what`s in their jab !
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A prison is a prison whether it is luxurious or Spartan
I’ll take the former any time!
That’s what you get when you’re not important enough. If only you owned a football team.
It’s the effing point of it.
To deter you from travelling.
A number of solo female ‘prisoners’ have also today complained that security guards made lewd suggestions to them and weren’t acting professionally.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-57609164
I’d be interested to compare a pic of the food that’s served free of charge in a real
prison.
I’d guess it’s pretty good grub at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
Don’t guess – that’s for government advisers. Go in and try it for yourself before making assumptions.
The pea in the gravy is triggering my OCD.
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How is this okay with anyone?
The government demands people to pay money for the quarantine in the hotel and this is the service people get in return. People in prison get served better food than this. Ian Huntley is getting fish and chips in jail and people who go on holiday with their families are not being fed properly.
There hotel should be ashamed there is no excuse for this
Clear profiteering
Its time to storm the quarantine hotels and free everyone inside. Treating Brits like prisoners in their own country is wrong, just wrong, for the crime of wanting to come back. Its time to just require a test to come back in, not this hotel quarantine nightmare. This is the best way of direct, rapid action against the regime.
Testing with useless tests is NOT required.
They’re prison like conditions because they’re internment camps where innocent, healthy people are held against their will without due process.
Imperial hotels! Have they branched out?
I love sajid Javid especially when he was Home Secretary. He is my one of my favourite politicians in the party. Boris Johnson has made a good decision for once
Is this satire?
Twat
People in prison get served better food than this. The hotel should be ashamed of themselves. There is no excuse for this.
According to the BBC (who also surprisingly gave coverage to the London demo), there have been cases of lone women being harassed in these “quarantine hotels”. So, to be clear, innocent, often desperate (and of course perfectly healthy) women are being imprisoned and abused as a result of this government’s actions. Shocking.
The slogan today which questioned being treated as sick until proven healthy had it right.
“Prison like”? It’s not “like” prison, it IS prison. Detaining people, depriving them of liberty, is imprisonment. Using terms like “quarantine” does not alter this basic fact.
This a psy-op to see how people will react to treatment of their fellow citizens in captivity.
Our citizens treated like prison cattle. Illegal migrants, house and benefits.
Serves them right for enabling the Faucists
Is there anything legally preventing people simply leaving? They have had no trial, no due process, no jury, therefore are they not detained legally.
Good point, what does the law say about these internment camps. I presume under public health emergency powers they can do what they want to, unless of course you identify yourself as an ‘important person’ whatever the legal definition of that is.
God help us all from this lunacy turning into comlplete totalitarianism.
Anyone know what percentage are going on to develop “real” Covid? If it’s anything like self-isolation because somebody near you tested positive it will be a tiny percentage. I’ve heard figures of 1:1,000 to 1:10,000
Was there ever any “real” covid? If there was it was gone a year ago. Anyone sick now just has a cold or flu, in my opinion. covid symptoms are the same as cold and flu symptoms.