Thread by @AmnestyUK

🆘The UK Government is trying to introduce MORE anti-protest regulations

Almost NO ONE knows about it ⚠️

Measures that were voted out from the #PublicOrderBill have been reintroduced as “regulations”

Retweet to spread the word & #ProtectTheProtest✊🏽

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These “regulations” were billed as a “crackdown” on slow-walking, but they go much further by:

🚨Making the threshold at which police can ban a peaceful protest extremely low

🚫Allowing police to ban a peaceful protest before it even happens

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... the new definition of "serious disruption", which allows police to ban a peaceful protest, is shockingly broad.

The definition would be: “obstruction that causes more than minor hindrance to day to day activities” ⚠️🆘⚠️

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These draconian measures were already voted out of the Public Order Bill just months ago.

Now they're being reintroduced in the form of “regulations”, a procedural trick that makes them much more difficult to oppose and scrutinise.

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These new regulations are so broad they could apply to almost any protest. This would mean:

1 The police are being handed even more power to pick & choose which protests to ban

2 Peaceful protesters could face arrest and prosecution if they continue

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