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author: Matthias Kretschmann
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date: 2008-04-11 14:16:51+00:00
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title: Photographers strike back in UK
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[![London police afraid of photographers](/media/londonpolice.jpg)](/media/londonpolice.jpg)Remember [the campaign of the London police](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/london-police-afraid-of-photographers/) calling all people to regard photographers as potential terrorists?

Now the [PressGazette reports](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40875&c=1) that



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> Labour MP [Member of Parliament] Austin Mitchell is planning to take a delegation of photographers to the Home Office to protest about the growing number of cases in which police officers and others try to stop professional and amateur photographers taking pictures in public places.
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You can read the whole story here:
[Photographers lobby parliament over police curbs](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40875&c=1)