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🆘The UK Government is trying to introduce MORE anti-protest regulations
Almost NO ONE knows about it ⚠️
Measures that were voted out from the #PublicOrderBill have been reintroduced as “regulations”
Retweet to spread the word & #ProtectTheProtest✊🏽
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Almost NO ONE knows about it ⚠️
Measures that were voted out from the #PublicOrderBill have been reintroduced as “regulations”
Retweet to spread the word & #ProtectTheProtest✊🏽
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These “regulations” were billed as a “crackdown” on slow-walking, but they go much further by:
🚨Making the threshold at which police can ban a peaceful protest extremely low
🚫Allowing police to ban a peaceful protest before it even happens
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🚨Making the threshold at which police can ban a peaceful protest extremely low
🚫Allowing police to ban a peaceful protest before it even happens
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... the new definition of "serious disruption", which allows police to ban a peaceful protest, is shockingly broad.
The definition would be: “obstruction that causes more than minor hindrance to day to day activities” ⚠️🆘⚠️
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The definition would be: “obstruction that causes more than minor hindrance to day to day activities” ⚠️🆘⚠️
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'The #PublicOrderBill..now been passed by Parliament in the UK, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, PEACEFUL ASSEMBY and ASSOCIATION.. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
It is especially worrying that the law expands the powers of the police to stop & search individuals, including WITHOUT SUSPICION; defines some of the new criminal offences in a vague & overly broad manner; & imposes UNNECESSARY & DISPROPORTIONATE criminal sanctions on people...
organizing or taking part in peaceful protests,”
Q. What’s the worst day of the year for dictators, despots & populists?
A. Tmw ‘cos @amnesty release our annual report on the state of #HumanRights in 156 countries
DM me for a copy
(Video👇featuring @NazaninBoniadi, @angeliquekidjo @itspetergabriel @U2)
A. Tmw ‘cos @amnesty release our annual report on the state of #HumanRights in 156 countries
DM me for a copy
(Video👇featuring @NazaninBoniadi, @angeliquekidjo @itspetergabriel @U2)
“It’s easy to feel hopeless in the face of atrocities & abuses but throughout the last year, people have shown we’re not powerless. We need less hypocrisy, less cynicism, & more action by all states to promote & protect all rights” @AgnesCallamard @amnesty
Respect for human rights around the world is deteriorating
@amnesty’s research indicates more than half of the states we monitored used torture or other ill-treatment
The annual report paints a disturbing picture of the global state of human rights today amn.st/6016O8EAO
@amnesty’s research indicates more than half of the states we monitored used torture or other ill-treatment
The annual report paints a disturbing picture of the global state of human rights today amn.st/6016O8EAO
24 hours to stop the #PublicOrderBill
1️⃣ Find your MP's Twitter amn.st/60043xnu2
2️⃣ Reply below "@[MP] Together with @AmnestyUK I'm terrified at the #PublicOrderBill's effect on our right to protest. Lords limited some of it, will you support? amn.st/60063xnuu"
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1️⃣ Find your MP's Twitter amn.st/60043xnu2
2️⃣ Reply below "@[MP] Together with @AmnestyUK I'm terrified at the #PublicOrderBill's effect on our right to protest. Lords limited some of it, will you support? amn.st/60063xnuu"
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We oppose the Bill altogether. If it proceeds, MPs MUST at least vote to accept the limits agreed by the Lords.
Our right to protest matters. Read the full briefing for MPs: amn.st/60153xZ9d
Our right to protest matters. Read the full briefing for MPs: amn.st/60153xZ9d
Lords voted these changes:
🚧Remove Protest Banning Orders without conviction
🛑Remove suspicionless stop&search
❌Oppose attempts to make it easier for police to restrict protest
⛑️Protect journalists’ right to report protests
Even with these, the Bill is shockingly draconian.
🚧Remove Protest Banning Orders without conviction
🛑Remove suspicionless stop&search
❌Oppose attempts to make it easier for police to restrict protest
⛑️Protect journalists’ right to report protests
Even with these, the Bill is shockingly draconian.
Today a thread of threads on the European Convention on Human Rights. It is worth understanding what the PM wants to get rid of. I will be building it during the day 1/? 🧵
It has always been a target and it depends on stirring up more fury about lawyers and the EU. It is about freedom from liability for much broader rights erosion
Narrow focus on deportations is intentional and also misleading 2/?
Narrow focus on deportations is intentional and also misleading 2/?
Cummings signposted this very early doors. No point getting rid of the Human Rights Act if folk can lean on the #ECHR when the selective impacts on local workers and consumers mount 3/?
Are we all psyched for Truss to do her Cummings tomorrow?
Reportedly a 3000 tome on why she was right. Maybe with a wee bit of help from all the US think tanks she visited since resigning
Reportedly a 3000 tome on why she was right. Maybe with a wee bit of help from all the US think tanks she visited since resigning
Do we suspect they were not the progressive policy kind of think tanks? I wonder if she had a chance to catch up with Boris
Seems a very selective visit like Mr Johnson. Just when most of the Republicans are panicking about Biden's record job figures politico.com/news/magazine/…
When your ex-PM is hobnobbing with people who excused and helped to brew the lies that were instrumental in an insurrection
Diplomats walk a tightrope with all kinds of people. Johnson is not doing that, he is getting tips and signalling his loyalty to GOP
Diplomats walk a tightrope with all kinds of people. Johnson is not doing that, he is getting tips and signalling his loyalty to GOP
*The GOP, as featured at the end of this long and pertinent thread as caution
I hear from people in a position to know that there is sanguine acceptance or even approval that our politics and public life is being Americanised, including campaigning, funding, rhetoric and legal system. We have to decide if that is what we want for the UK. Constant division
🔴 The #StrikesBill is about to go through second reading in the House of Commons
Along with latest amendment to the #PublicOrderBill that Sunak is pushing, which will give powers to police to stop protests even before there's disruption, UK is seeing inc anti-strike legislation
Along with latest amendment to the #PublicOrderBill that Sunak is pushing, which will give powers to police to stop protests even before there's disruption, UK is seeing inc anti-strike legislation
For more on the draconian direction that legislation is taking 👇
theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
LIVE: Shapps speaks in the House of Commons saying they believe in the right to strike, but there needs to be "balance."
#StrikesBill
#StrikesBill
Watching #PoliticsLive on this #PublicOrderBill, it is appalling
The commentator pictured in the below tweet is from the Heritage Foundation think tank. We are on a very dark path here on all fronts
The commentator pictured in the below tweet is from the Heritage Foundation think tank. We are on a very dark path here on all fronts
The ambulance blocking line pulled out again as predictable
This is about predictive policing
It would be remiss to share this without explaining more on the #ECHR and Raab's Bill of Rights
A barrister quoting an excellent article by another on Bill of Rights
My frequently reshared #ECHR thread
🔴 On Tuesday, Home Secretary #Braverman pushed through the #PublicOrderBill aka #AntiProtestBill with last minute changes
With 283 to 234 votes, the Bill was passed in the Commons.
With this, what #freedoms have we lost? 😰
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heraldscotland.com/politics/23059…
With 283 to 234 votes, the Bill was passed in the Commons.
With this, what #freedoms have we lost? 😰
A 🧵…
heraldscotland.com/politics/23059…
One of the most worrying of the changes is to do with the introduction of “disruption prevention” measures ⚠️
This means police can take absolutely draconian steps to prevent people from protesting, even if they have never been charged with a crime.
This means police can take absolutely draconian steps to prevent people from protesting, even if they have never been charged with a crime.
What are these “preventive powers”?
➡️Ban individuals from attending protests
➡️Authorise use of devices (tags) to monitor individuals
➡️Order individuals to remain at a certain place/for certain time
➡️Bar people from certain places/stop them from associating with certain people
➡️Ban individuals from attending protests
➡️Authorise use of devices (tags) to monitor individuals
➡️Order individuals to remain at a certain place/for certain time
➡️Bar people from certain places/stop them from associating with certain people
Can we have one day without some new horrible discriminatory rights-abusing Government proposal?
The Government is intent on wrecking privacy rights and monitoring us.
Almost 2 years ago we won the world's first legal challenge against police use of live #FacialRecognition tech in public.
But South Wales Police - who we beat - has used it since, and is even trialling facial rec smartphone apps so officers can use it out and about
But South Wales Police - who we beat - has used it since, and is even trialling facial rec smartphone apps so officers can use it out and about
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When Gov says Parliament must have the final say on laws, apparently that's only if Gov likes the result.
One House of Parliament famously binned their worst anti-protest proposals in Jan.
Now Gov's brought them back.
(brace yourself, it’s long)
When Gov says Parliament must have the final say on laws, apparently that's only if Gov likes the result.
One House of Parliament famously binned their worst anti-protest proposals in Jan.
Now Gov's brought them back.
(brace yourself, it’s long)
Gov's anti-protest Policing Bill saw the #KillTheBill movement develop as Gov faced a whole year of resistance.
In an attempt to hide from accountability for its actions, Gov wanted to give police more powers to shut down protests it doesn't like and criminalise demonstrators.
In an attempt to hide from accountability for its actions, Gov wanted to give police more powers to shut down protests it doesn't like and criminalise demonstrators.
When Gov shoved new dangerous and discriminatory proposals into the Bill at the last minute to avoid scrutiny, the people and the House of Lords said 'no'.
Protest isn't a gift from the State. It's OUR RIGHT.
The Lords scrapped each and every one.
Protest isn't a gift from the State. It's OUR RIGHT.
The Lords scrapped each and every one.
In a nutshell: if you participate in two protests in the space of five years, *just because of that* (ie even if you were not convicted of any offence), you can be subject to an SDPO which includes restrictions on your liberty, electronic surveillance, and more. #PublicOrderBill
To recap: the House of Lords throws out some of the most contentious provisions from the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (now law) because they were manifestly authoritarian in nature, and the Gov't now doubles down on them in the #PublicOrderBill? This is scary stuff
And once you read the Gov't's efforts to limit and prevent protests in the context of the wider 'reform' of electoral procedure/institutions (see ), I genuinely wonder what must happen for people across the political spectrum to sound the RED ALERT alarm?
