TODAY 15 January 2016 is the anniversary of dramatic events in Berlin, when people stormed the Stasi HQ to stop the destruction of files, and halted a cover-up of the secret police’s activities. Marking that day gives us an insight…
Solidarity demo: Friday 15 January 2016, 1pm, High Court, London
Please share widely! 15th January 1990 – Stasi Secret Police Smoke is seen rising from Stasi HQ in Berlin, as officers desperately try to burn the evidence of their abuses. People storm the complex to stop the destruction, and demand…
“This is going to happen to us one day” – UK #spycops and the Stasi anniversary
As a key court hearing falls on the anniversary of events in secret police history, it is not only campaigners who make the links between East Germany’s Stasi and the UK’s spycops – in fact, the SDS officers themselves were…
Women’s statement re Stasi anniversary and UK Spycops: “Release the names, open the files”
The eight women in this case have issued the following statement ahead of the coming court hearing and anniversary: “Friday 15th January 2016 will see the first hearing in our legal case against undercover policing since the historic apology issued…
Release the names and open the files
We’ve been campaigning since the first legal cases started in 2011 for the police to release information about these abusive deployments. The legal battles fought by the women have produced no disclosure. The exception to this is Kate Wilson’s case…