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the offices of the activist environmental group, Baikal Environmental Wave had their offices raided by Russian police. Their website was shutdown, computers confiscated and the employees led away.

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Eleven G20 campaigners are being prosecuted for impersonating police officers despite some being half-dressed and wielding toy machineguns

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Police today set up road blocks around a music festival site to keep thousands of environmental campaigners away from one of Britain's longest-running festivals.

Up to 15,000 people had begun to gather for the Big Green Gathering in the Mendip hills, Somerset, which was officially due to start on Wednesday. But organisers were forced to cancel it on legal advice yesterday after the police took out an injunction to prevent the festival going ahead.

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Two female protesters who challenged police officers for not displaying their badge numbers at Kingsnorth power station, Kent, were bundled to the ground, arrested and held in prison for four days last August, according to an official complaint lodged last month. Val Swain, 43, and Emily Apple, 33, both mothers with young children, said they were targeted because they campaign for Fit Watch which opposes police surveillance at demonstrations.

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Two men detained outside Vestas plant on Isle of Wight as owners erect fence around site in response to demonstration against its closure

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Government officials handed confidential police intelligence about environmental activists to the energy giant E.ON before a planned peaceful demonstration, according to private emails seen by the Guardian.

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