The UK government are set on eroding any right to protest that is left. Please do anything you can. I don’t care what banner you do it under, just please do something.

Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, has scalded the government for their draconian crackdown on any people trying to sound the alarm but as we’ve seen recently, there is no justice system and countries cannot and will not hold each-other to account. You can read his report here.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    That’s obscene. I think there must be some sort of legal recourse, no? That seems intentionally designed to curtail your ability to protest through onerousness.

    • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah it’s super super repressive. I was held in custody (think solitary confinement) for 54 hours for a 10 minute march around parliament square another time. I’m also currently banned from London so can’t join the protests for Palestine happening there. I have friends who were put on GPS tags and not allowed to leave their home for similar marches. One other friend had their GPS tag set up wrong so police turned up and told her she was breaking her bail conditions by going in her bathroom because that’s outside the zone the police set for her 🙃

      There’s no legal recourse, who am I going to complain to, the police? Lots of what they’re doing is illegal under their own laws and, more often, international law. But laws are nothing if they aren’t enforced.

      • quindraco@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        If it’s illegal, lawyer up and sue. If it’s not illegal, contact your local newspaper to try to get the story out there so voters can decide it o7ght to be illegal.