UK’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill enables mass biometric surveillance and suppression of public protests
The United Kingdom’s Crime and Policing Bill 2025, introduced in February by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, has reached the Committee stage in the House of Commons, reigniting fierce debate over its expansion of facial recognition powers.
Amnesty International has called the Bill an “anti-protest bill” that will be used to curtail free speech. However, unsurprisingly, Amnesty International feels these measures will only be used against “environmental” activists and “minoritised people.”
The Crime and Policing Bill grants police access to over 50 million driver’s license photos for facial recognition searches. It revives a dropped Conservative plan, with Labour justifying it as necessary to combat crime, terrorism and violence against women.
Big Brother Watch warns that the bill enables mass biometric surveillance, risking misidentification and unjust tracking of innocent citizens.
Russia plans a 2025 rollout of facial recognition payments via 2 million terminals linked to its state biometric database (UBS).
Both systems face criticism for enabling government overreach, with Russia already using facial recognition to monitor activists.
Read the full article on Natural News HERE.
Raising concerns about the contents of the Crime and Policing Bill ahead of its Second Reading last month, Amnesty International referred to the UK’s Crime and Policing Bill as an “anti-protest bill.”
“The Bill seeks to criminalise yet more parts of peaceful protest,” Amnesty International wrote.
“The large bill details a diverse range of issues, but its clauses on protest are especially problematic. As the fourth anti-protest bill put to parliament in as many years, protesters continue to face mounting criminalisation for peaceful protest as well as the imprisonment of peaceful protesters for longer than some serious violent offenders.”
Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International UK’s Director of Campaigns, said: “Peaceful protest is clearly protected under international law, yet alarmingly it seems the UK has entered a dangerous new era of authoritarian policing which seeks to undermine our right to free speech.”
Unfortunately, Amnesty International is focusing on “environmental” protesting and police powers “disproportionately used against protests by Black and other minoritised people” at or on their way to a protest. In other words, Amnesty International is taking legitimate concerns about the Bill and using it to further the UN’s agenda.
“The UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders warned that environmental activists face a “severe crackdown” due to the repressive legislative framework and introduction of new criminal charges,” Amnesty International said.
Is Amnesty International What You Think It Is?
Contradicting its statement on the Crimes and Policing Bill – where its support is clearly for only two groups of people, which is driven by ideology – the organisation states, “We are independent of any institution, ideology, economic interest, and religion. Our only interest is in achieving human rights for all,” Amnesty International claims.
The organisation also says that “the vast majority of our income comes from small donations from private individuals.” However, 28% of its finding in 2023 were grants from trusts and foundations, “major donors” and “other.”
In a 2012 article, NGO Monitor noted that Amnesty also states, “AI neither asks for nor accepts direct donations from governments” and, “We neither seek nor accept any funds for human rights research from governments or political parties.”
This isn’t true. Amnesty International received a £3.1 million grant, split over the years 2008 to 2011, from the UK government’s Department for International Development. In 2009, Amnesty received approximately 1% of its donations from governments, the British government being the third largest donor that year.
Molfar, a Ukrainian open-source intelligence service, published a report of their investigation into Amnesty International. The date of the report is not noted but it refers to events in August 2022, so it was sometime after August 2022 but before Amnesty published figures for the funds it raised for 2022.
Molfar’s report speaks of the incompetence of Amnesty International and its irrational spending. And, “scandalous reports, mysterious suicides of employees with millions in compensation, ties to terrorist groups, racism among employees by senior management, money laundering through separatist government organisations – more information at this link.”
Wikispooks describes Amnesty International’s involvement in propaganda campaigns leading up to the 1991 Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan and, more recently, a report saying that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Among other dubious activities, Wikispooks also notes an obvious case of censorship orchestrated by Amnesty International. The organisation sponsors an annual film festival focused on human rights issues. During its 2003 festival, it banned the film ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’, also known as ‘Chávez: Inside the Coup’, that focused on the events in Venezuela leading up to and during the April 2002 coup d’état attempt, which saw President Hugo Chávez removed from office for two days.
Perhaps, then, Amnesty International’s focus on the rights of “environmental” and UK minority protestors while ignoring the inalienable rights of everyone else should come as no surprise.
The proposed Crime and Policing Bill, the anti-protest bill seeking to undermine free speech, will target anyone who challenges the Globalists’ narrative. It has nothing to do with Amnesty International’s identity politics or environmental activism. The aim is to target any or all of those who speak against the “official” narrative, which is the same narrative Amnesty International appears to be supporting.
