18 pages have been added to the UK's new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would make many tools and techniques of protest illegal, carrying a prison sentence up to 51 weeks, in a way...
18 pages have been added to the UK's new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would make many tools and techniques of protest illegal, carrying a prison sentence up to 51 weeks, in a way that evades the Parliamentary scrutiny bills should face. You can read the bill as-amended here - new additions are marked with a star and start on page 68.
This is an opinion piece - so there are a few calls-to-action - but many other media outlets are not covering this, for example there is no mention on the BBC's Politics News page.
More coverage at Liberty: https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/5-ways-the-governments-policing-bill-just-went-from-bad-to-worse/ Also, there will be protests outside Parliament on Wednesday...
18 pages have been added to the UK's new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would make many tools and techniques of protest illegal, carrying a prison sentence up to 51 weeks, in a way that evades the Parliamentary scrutiny bills should face. You can read the bill as-amended here - new additions are marked with a star and start on page 68.
This is an opinion piece - so there are a few calls-to-action - but many other media outlets are not covering this, for example there is no mention on the BBC's Politics News page.
More coverage at Liberty: https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/5-ways-the-governments-policing-bill-just-went-from-bad-to-worse/
Also, there will be protests outside Parliament on Wednesday 8th, the same day as the next reading of this bill. Tell your friends!
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