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UN official calls on British government to investigate undercover police scandal
2013-01-23 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A senior United Nations official has called on the British government to launch a judge-led public inquiry into the "shocking" case of Mark Kennedy and other undercover police officers who have been infiltrating protest groups. Maina Kiai, a UN special rapporteur, said the scandal involving undercover police cultivating intimate sexual relationships with political activists over long periods of time had been as damaging as the phone-hacking controversy that prompted the Leveson inquiry. He...
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