Press and Journal: "Grampian Police were attacked last night for turning a video camera on delegates arriving for a G8 Alternatives meeting at Aberdeen University.
Aamer Anwar, a human rights lawyer and spokesman for the group, described the incident as 'a serious breach of their human rights' and will be making an official complaint.
Members of the group were arriving for one of their fortnightly meetings at the university when they spotted three police officers with a video camera filming their arrival.
Barry Reid and a friend were on their way to the meeting shortly before 7pm when they approached the officers.
After initially being ignored the 23-year-old Aberdeen College music student asked one of the officers why they were filming. He said: 'I remember his exact words, he said, 'we are compiling evidence'. I turned to the policeman who was holding the camera and he filmed me up and down. It's an invasion of privacy.'
He added: 'We have nothing to hide. If they wanted to send a representative to one of our meetings and find out what we are talking about that would be fine. But to film us without our permission, that's not democracy is it?'
Penny Howard, one of the organisers of G8 Alternatives, said that police officers spent more than an hour outside the meeting.
Members of Grampian Senior Citizens' Forum, university and college students along with teachers made up the 15-strong meeting."
