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Home | Friday 11th September 2009 | Issue 690

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ROOM SERVERS

The case has been dropped against a Sheffield IT worker who was raided, arrested and had a computer server confiscated in January this year (See SchNEWS 663). The server was apparently being used by Indymedia, and the police warrant was to track down the poster of a comment on Manchester Indymedia giving the home address of the judge involved in jailing some SHAC animal rights defendants (See also SchNEWS 663).

Despite being told that Indymedia does not log the IP addresses of any of its contributors, the cops nonetheless targeted this particular, albeit arbitrary, server. The man running it didn’t even have the passwords to access the server, but yet he was arrested under suspicion of offences including the rather Orwellian “encouraging or assisting an offence believing it will be committed”. It marked the first recorded use of broad new powers granted by the Serious Crime Act 2007. See www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437512.html

* Operation Liberation – National demonstration outside Highgate Farm in Lincolnshire, who breed rabbits and ferrets for HLS and other labs. Saturday 26th September, starts 12 noon, see www.shac.net

Keywords: indymedia, serious crime act, shac


 

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