Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They highlight the arrest of Republic anti-monarchy protesters during King Charles’s coronation, charges and arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators and long sentences for climate protesters as examples of the crackdown on the right to peaceful dissent.

  Funny how the flag shaggers get a pass to literally travel across the country to batter police officers when a pensioner wearing a t-shirt gets arrested on sight

  Why do these laws disproportionately affect progressive protesters, hm?

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  • omcgo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scared of one side, not the other

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    • leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Agree with one side, not the other.

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  • luisgutz@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As the Germans say " the police is blind on the right eye"

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Recent changes? This has been going on for a long time

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am starting to get real sick and tired of all these fascist deniers pretending things aren’t getting worse.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The PCSC act was a real chunk out of the right to protest and it’s been biting lately. But with Palestine Action, it was the Terrorism Act, whose abuse was predicted at the time but few people cared about, which was abused to arrest over a thousand innocent, peaceful people. I hope this is taken seriously and learnt from when warnings about breaches of fundamental rights to free speech and other freedoms are raised now.

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• Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These idiots really have forgotten that these rights and strikes in general are far more comfortable for their necks than the original method of protesting factory owners that got too greedy.

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