Extinction Rebellion: Police defend adding groups to extremism guide
According to the Guardian, the police document includes other non-violent groups such as ocean pollution campaigners Sea Shepherd, animal rights group Peta and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for the UK's Counter Terrorism Policing, said police do not consider legitimate protest groups to be extremist or a threat to national security. In a statement, he said:"The guidance document in question explicitly states that many of the groups included are not of counter-terrorism interest, and that membership of them does not indicate criminality of any kind.He said the document was used by the government's counter-terrorism strategy, known as the
The group said:"The chilling effect is to leave people feeling under scrutiny, watched and pressurised, feeling othered, ashamed or afraid to be open about the things they care about such as the environment and the world around us."
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