🚨The House of Lords is now debating the draconian #PolicingBill at Report stage.
Rushed amendments to this Bill seek to STOP some citizens from taking part in protests altogether.
❌These unprecedented measures need to be quashed.
Rushed amendments to this Bill seek to STOP some citizens from taking part in protests altogether.
❌These unprecedented measures need to be quashed.
👮♂️Lord Coaker (@Vernon_Coaker) addresses one of the most dangerous provisions in the Bill; allowing police to limit protests based on the criteria of noise.
🪧 @greenjennyjones sets out the importance of defending everyone's right to protest, even when not sympathetic to their cause.
📣@brianpaddick warns of the dangers of giving the police too much power to decide which protests should be curtailed.
🚨Breaking🚨
Members of the House of Lords have voted to REMOVE measures from the #PolicingBill which would allow the police to limit protests where they are deemed to be too noisy AND measures that would give police more power to curtail static assemblies.
Members of the House of Lords have voted to REMOVE measures from the #PolicingBill which would allow the police to limit protests where they are deemed to be too noisy AND measures that would give police more power to curtail static assemblies.
✔️It’s vital that Members of the House of Commons now accept these changes, which help safeguard our protest rights and mitigate some of the worst parts of this #PolicingBill.
💪 Overnight the House of Lords defeated a series of chilling authoritarian new amendments outright that the Government had tried to tack on to the #PolicingBill.
✊ This is a BIG WIN for human rights and civil liberties in the UK!
✊ This is a BIG WIN for human rights and civil liberties in the UK!
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