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Tories ‘crushing right to protest when it's needed most’ – but climate activists say they won't be deterred
The Rev Sue Parfitt: “I think in a rather paradoxical way that the more heavy handed the laws become, or try to become, the more it backfires”
THE government is cracking down on the right to protest at the very time it’s needed most, veteran climate activists have warned as they hit out at “draconian” anti-protest laws.
The Public Order Bill, which is currently being scrutinised in the House of Lords, has already been cleared by MPs despite warnings the legislation will severely restrict people’s right to protest and amounts to an “attempt to overthrow democracy.”
The Bill aims to target radical climate protesters by criminalising tactics favoured by environmental activists, including “locking on,” tunnelling and obstructing major transport networks as well as expanding stop-and-search powers around protests.
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