MSPs join calls for Holyrood inquiry into police ‘abuses of power’ at Cop26

Scottish Greens support investigation into 100 instances of alleged police intimidation against activists

There are calls for an urgent Holyrood inquiry into more than 100 instances of alleged police intimidation, harassment and aggression towards activists at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow as a report challenges Police Scotland's insistence that it would carry out a human rights-based operation.

Supported by the Scottish Greens - now government partners after their post-election deal with the SNP - an extensive report by Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) and the Article 11 Trust argues that systemic abuses of power" demand critical consideration by MSPs after Police Scotland's repeated insistence that policing of protests at November's climate conference would be human rights-based" and welcoming, friendly and proportionate".