On 7 August, at the Scottish court of appeal in Edinburgh, the crown dropped its prosecution of peace activist Barbara Dowling for allegedly failing to fully complete her census form in 2011.
When Barbara’s legal team appealed an earlier decision by Glasgow sheriff court, the appeal court ruled that a further evidential hearing would be necessary, and the crown dropped the case.
Many withheld co-operation from Scotland’s 2011 census in protest at the involvement of a British subsidiary of CACI – a US-based defence contractor complicit in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.