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‘Solid’ welfare adviser faces court for help
Comrades stage solidarity protest in Dundee

DISABILITY campaigners will rally today in solidarity with a welfare activist dragged into court for advising benefit claimants at an assessment centre.

Dr Tony Cox, a campaigner with the Scottish Unemployed Workers Network (SUWN), was arrested last November while accompanying a claimant to a disability benefits test in Dundee.

Despite Department for Work and Pensions regulations giving people the right to representation at all appointments, staff at the centre refused to allow Dr Cox in and called the police.

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