A police force acted unlawfully when it secretly labelled a journalist a leftwing extremist and prevented him attending the Labour party conference, the high court has ruled. On Friday, Lord Justice Simon and Mr Justice Warby ruled that Sussex police had acted unlawfully when it refused to give the 25-year-old security accreditation to the conference in Brighton. Segalov said he had reported on the protest “purely and exclusively as a journalist” and provided information about it to the Guardian and other media. The judges ruled that “even taken at face value, the assessment of threat does not appear to have been related to the risk to the security of the Labour party conference”. They dismissed Segalov’s claim against a second police force, Greater Manchester, which ran a national scheme screening applicants for security clearances at party conferences.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2018 13:12 UTC