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Police remove activists from Just Stop Oill during their protest outside Harrods department store in Knightbridge, London. Picture date: Thursday October 20, 2022.
Campaigners say the former prince must face criminal probe
ENVIRONMENTAL and wildlife groups are urging peers to throw out the “most restrictive and chilling” measures in the Public Order Bill as the legislation returns to Parliament tomorrow.
A letter signed by 38 leading UK conservation organisations, including the RSPB, Wildlife Trust and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), highlights concerns over the anti-protest legislation’s “chilling effect” on the right of ordinary citizens to protest.
“Over many decades we have witnessed the vital importance of peaceful protest in raising the alarm about the urgent threat of climate catastrophe and the decline of nature, and pressing decision makers … to act to protect people and the planet,” the letter, addressed to peers, reads.
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully
