Important new @HumanRightsCtte report on the government bill which is going to significantly limit the right to protest. I agree the but allowing police to prevent ‘noisy protests’ happening has to go
https://twitter.com/humanrightsctte/status/1407216786135830528
Here is the full report publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5802/jtse… 
This really is a power grab by the government against inconvenient protests. It’s anti-democratic. Parliamentarians from all parties should rise up against it
A year ago I would have said this is an unnecessary gloss on the Human Rights Act. However, in a year when protest has been effectively banned by home office and police policy, I am in favour of an explicit right to protest, and duty to facilitate it, being brought into law
The @ReclaimTS case, and the protest ban policy of the Met Police which it exposes, shows how important a duty to facilitate peaceful protest could be crowdjustice.com/case/defending…
Worth noting that @SeethingMead proposed a statutory guarantee of the right to protest in his book over a decade ago. Now works with the @HumanRightsCtte
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