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Police powers to randomly stop and search citizens have been declared illegal by the European Court of Human Rights.
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 enables individuals to be searched "without reasonable suspicion". But the court declared yesterday that this carried "a clear risk of arbitrariness" and was not in accordance with the Human Rights Act.
For The Wharf's gallery of the DSEi arms fair at Excel, click here. Go here for part one
In a two-part online report, The Wharf talks to the people inside and outside the world's largest arms fair.
In part two, we offer a glimpse inside the arms fair itself, and discover an industry increasingly catering for domestic security as well as the military.
For The Wharf's gallery of the arms fair protests, click here
In a two-part online report, The Wharf talks to the people inside and outside the world's largest arms fair.
Part one looks at the protest movement against Excel's DSEi defence show, and how activists have switched targets in a bid to challenge the arms industry.
Arms fair opponents will try to reach runners registering for the London Marathon at Excel this weekend.
As reported by The Wharf earlier this month, East London Against The Arms Fair will stage a musical protest on Saturday against September's DSEi event in Docklands.
Campaigners will hold a musical protest outside the United Arab Emirates embassy as part of their war against Excel's DSEi arms fair.
The protest is directed against the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, who own the Royal Docks venue that has hosted the fair every other year since 2001.
Santa Claus is coming to town - and he's packing nuclear weapons.
Jolly ol' St Nick visited the Spirit of Christmas fair with a sackful of guns and missiles as part of a protest highlighting organiser Clarion Events' links to a controversial East London arms exhibition.
ANTI-WAR protesters aim to stoke up the pressure on the new owners of ExCeL’s international arms fair.
Campaigners are keen to open talks with Clarion Events after the exhibitions group snapped up the DSEi defence exhibition, which is held every other year at the centre in Royal Docks.
Strong opposition inside and outside the company forced previous owners Reed Elsevier to pledge to sell the fair last year.
DOCKLANDS’ controversial arms fair is still up for grabs.
DSEi organiser Reed Elsevier is still talking to interested parties nearly a year after announcing it wanted to sell the international event, which attracts arms traders and governments from around the world to the ExCeL centre every two years. It had hoped to be able to flog the fair by the end of last year.
A spokesman said: “There’s no question of us not selling. It’s just a timing issue.
“We’re committed to getting the maximum value of the fair for shareholders. We’re talking to
interested parties and we’ll make an announcement in due course, but there’s nothing imminent.�
