01/07/09 Liberty responded today to the new Home Secretary’s claims that identity cards for British citizens will be voluntary. Although the Home Secretary said that ‘holding an identity card should be a personal choice for British citizens’, when applying for a passport details will still be entered on the National Identity Register, the massive database that supports the scheme.

18/06/2009 A former Minister of State for Trade has released a statement condemning extradition laws to coincide with the launch of Liberty’s Extradition Watch campaign last night.

17/06/2009 A confidential letter from Liberty to Greater Manchester Police was leaked yesterday to the Manchester Evening News. The leaked letter, which contained names and details of family members, alerted the police to the harassment of innocent relatives as the result of a naming and shaming Police PR exercise.