Do these people look like terrorists to you?
PHOTO ESSAY: spiked joined a mass photographers’ protest against Britain’s freedom-sapping terrorism laws.
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As Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to ‘severe’ – despite a lack of intelligence, home secretary Alan Johnson pointed out, that suggested an attack is imminent – thousands of professional and amateur photographers gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest against the police’s extended stop and search powers under section 44 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2000.
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