Yvette Cooper, scrap anti-protest laws!
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Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
JVL Introduction
The UK government has suffered a setback in its attempt to push ahead with attacks on the right to protest introduced by its Conservative predecessors.
On Friday the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the civil liberties organisation Liberty which had argued that the Tories had unlawfully changed the rules about what constitutes legitimate protest. Now Liberty is calling on the Home Secretary to scrap the legislation and review every arrest made under it.
See below their press release about the appeal court’s judgement and a short video made last year to explain the background.
NWI
This article was originally published by Liberty on Fri 2 May 2025. Read the original here.
Liberty defeats Government appeal as Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful
- Court of Appeal dismisses Government appeal, ruling that anti-protest regulations were made unlawfully
- Liberty challenged law change which lowered threshold on when protests can have conditions placed on them to anything that caused ‘more than minor’ disruption
- Liberty calls on Government to scrap legislation and review every arrest made under the law
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Thank goodness — but Yvette Cooper has just said that she wants to bring in laws instructing lawyers ‘how to interpret’ human rights law so that deportation can go ahead more smoothly! Presumably she’s going to tell these pesky lawyers how to interpret the laws of protest likewise.
The, very, first thing that needs to happen is the release of all prisoners being held on remand! Now! Immediately!
Then, we can proceed from there.
The politicians, involved in this Draconian fiasco, are of no consequence – for the time being.
Liberty is doing an excellent work. Few people are aware of how governments are trying to curtail the right to protest. That a Labour government has been engaged on pursuing this is against belief. Thanks for making the information available to the.public.
Who, but fascists, try to curtail our freedoms.