Security agents linked to London mayor Sadiq Khan “spied” on a group of environmental activists and blocked them from participating in a public debate, openDemocracy can reveal.
Video footage obtained by openDemocracy shows how campaigners who wanted to ask questions at an event with Khan in London’s O2 arena were personally identified and turned away at the door.
In one clip, a plain-clothes security official at the entrance calls out the campaigners’ names as they approach, but refuses to tell them who he is working for. A second clip also shows an O2 security guard admitting he had received “intelligence” about the green campaigners.
