POLICE tactics at Cop26 “suffocated” peaceful protest and could have breached activists’ human rights, campaigners and monitoring groups have claimed. 

The use of tactics such as kettling, “intrusive and intimidating” surveillance, and stop and search during the two-week climate summit in Glasgow had a “chilling effect” on demonstrations, campaigners said. 

Organisers of Scotland’s largest climate demo on November 6 have also accused officers of “heavy-handed and racially discriminatory policing” during the march, adding that the policing of the event put the public at risk.