Six Journalists Sue the British Police Over Spying Revelations

By: Zachary Davies Boren | Independent.co.uk

A group of six journalists are taking legal action against London's Metropolitan Police and the Home Office after it was revealed that they had been been under government surveillance for years — and had even been listed as 'domestic extremists'.

Surveillance records, obtained via public records request, detailed the extent to which they police had been spying — reams of documents, including family members' medical history, that led one of the claimants to compare the Met Police to "the Stasi". They were all targets of the Yard’s National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit (NDEDIU).