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BREAKING
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman made anti-protest laws she had no power to create
So we’re in court today to
#DefendDemocracy
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BREAKING
House of Lords has REJECTED Gov's
#PublicOrderBill
plan to give police powers to shut down protests on the off chance they become disruptive later
HUGE VICTORY
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BREAKING UPDATE
The judge has given us the go-ahead
Suella Braverman: WE’LL SEE YOU IN COURT
#DefendDemocracy
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BREAKING
Suella Braverman is set to sign off protest restrictions she has no power to create. Restrictions rejected by Parliament
Undemocratic
Unconstitutional
Unacceptable
LIBERTY'S LAWYERS HAVE STARTED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE HOME SECRETARY
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Protest isn't a gift from the State. It's a fundamental right.
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The judge has given us the go-ahead
Suella Braverman: SEE YOU IN COURT
#DefendDemocracy
📹
@AkikoMHart
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Solidarity
@GretaThunberg
Suella Braverman changed the definition of ‘serious disruption’ to mean ‘more than minor’
This gives police almost unlimited power to shut down protests
She had no power to do so. Parliament rejected this change
WE'RE TAKING SUELLA BRAVERMAN TO COURT
🇬🇧
#BREAKING
: Greta Thunberg
has just been arrested protesting in London
#ClimateAction
#ClimateCrisis
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BREAKING
Gov tried to hide from accountability by refusing to give us its lockdown and COVID regs equality impact assessments for 15 months, saying it was "not in the public interest".
The Information Commissioner disagrees and has now given Gov until 30 Nov to release the docs
Exclusive: The government has been ordered to publish its assessments on the impact of national lockdowns and Covid restrictions after resisting making them public
Documents predicting how rules would affect different groups have so far been kept secret
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BREAKING
174 organisations representing human rights, migrants and refugees, anti-slavery, women, LGBTQI+ folk and disabled people call for MPs and House of Lords to demand the Government ditch its shockingly cruel and shameful Migration Bill
#StopTheBill
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The Home Secretary has made protest restrictions she had no power to create
They were already rejected by Parliament
Our parliamentary democracy exists to make sure governments can’t just do whatever they want
We’re taking the Home Secretary to court to
#DefendDemocracy
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Gov shoved new amendments into
#PolicingBill
at the last moment to avoid scrutiny.
It didn't work out.
Locking on offences🗑
Obstructing major transport works🗑
Interference w/ key infrastructure🗑
Stop and search🗑
Protest banning orders🗑
What a night. Power to the people
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Arresting Legal Observers is disgraceful.
Legal Observers help make sure the people's right to protest is respected, and the police act within the law.
Police apparently arresting legal observers at what remains of the
#KillTheBill
protest in Aldwych.
@libertyhq
check it out.
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WATCH: Why Sunak and Truss’s threats to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (
#ECHR
) are so dangerous… and how to stop them
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Our parliamentary democracy exists to make sure a government can’t just do whatever it wants
The Home Secretary is unlawfully changing the law by the back door, violating the constitutional principle of the separation of powers
We've started legal action
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The Government is trying to shut down vital avenues of accountability.
Don't let it become untouchable.
#SaveYourRights
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⚠️WARNING: POWER GRAB OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS IMMINENT⚠️
Speak up to
#SaveYourRights
(Location:
#QueensSpeech
)
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Liberty and 150 other human rights organisations, charities, unions and faith groups have written to the Home Secretary:
The
#PoliceCrackdownBill
is an attack on the people's fundamental rights
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Breaking: Court of Appeal has ruled the Government IS breaking the law by collecting the nation's internet activity and phone records and letting public bodies grant themselves access with no suspicion of serious crime and no independent sign-off
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Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman made protest regulations she had no power to create
This is undemocratic, unconstitutional and unacceptable
Braverman is gone but the regulations remain
James Clevely: see you in court
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BREAKING
Liberty Lawyers will take the Metropolitan Police to court unless the force drops fines against
@blkprotestlegal
legal observers it unlawfully arrested at a protest on Tuesday 16 March.
The Met has 2 weeks to respond.
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MAJOR VICTORY FOR PROTEST RIGHTS
The
#Stansted15
have won the case against their terrorism convictions for stopping a forced deportation flight.
The convictions were part of a sustained attack on the right to protest. Protest is key to democracy.
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BREAKING UPDATE
Met Police issues apology to Liberty client Anthony Sinclair who was arrested for refusing to leave the place he was living
His possessions were destroyed while he was in custody
Met admits 'dispersal order' was unlawful and officers violated his human rights
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There is NO LAW against travelling to exercise.
Police have NO POWER to enforce guidance.
Policing "acting in the spirit of lockdown" is NOT A THING.
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The police don’t have the power to ask you for ID. And you don’t have a duty to show them any - or even provide your name.
If you’re stopped by the police, ask them what powers they are using first, and do what makes you feel safe.
#KnowYourRights
Police are doing indiscriminate ID checks on Lambeth Bridge.
@ExtinctionR
#PoliceState
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BREAKING
The Government has reportedly shelved the
#RightsRemovalBill
🎉🎉
An incredible victory
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We now have permission from the High Court to proceed with the case and await a hearing date
More info here
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Disturbing scenes at
#BristolProtests
last night.
Protest is a right not a privilege.
Heavy-handed policing and further restrictions in the
#PoliceCrackdownBill
are a threat to that right.
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The Home Secretary's inflammatory and racist rhetoric is designed to divide us – it won't work
Time for all of us to stand up for our human rights
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When Edward Snowden revealed the British intelligence agencies were spying on the population, we all expected those powers to be cut back
But a decade later the UK is unrivalled among democratic nations for sanctioning state snooping
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Breaking: The Gov has just published its ‘anti-boycott bill’
Had this law been in place during the 1980s it would have forced local authorities & universities to do business with apartheid South Africa
That's why we're opposing this bill
#RightToBoycott
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Suella Braverman is making new laws that change the definition of ‘serious disruption’ to ‘more than minor’ – giving police almost unlimited powers to shut down protests
This change was already rejected by Parliament when Gov tried to insert it into the Public Order Act
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BREAKING
We've won the world's first legal challenge against police use of
#FacialRecognition
.
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If
#TheresaMay
does this, she'll go down in history as the Prime Minister who gave terrorists their greatest victory
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Metropolitan Police will dismantle its racist
#GangsMatrix
database after landmark legal challenge from
@AWATEMUSIC
@UnjustUK
and Liberty
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BREAKING
Supreme Court has overturned previous ruling over Shamima Begum’s right to return to the UK to participate in her case.
The right to a fair trial protects all of us. Stripping someone’s citizenship without due process sets a dangerous precedent.
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BREAKING: The Gov's Bill of Rights has been *officially* scrapped
Good riddance
Raab's
#RightsRemovalBill
would have ripped up our Human Rights Act, put people in harm’s way and hid the powerful from accountability
"Having carefully considered the government's legislative programme in the round, I can inform the House that we have decided not to proceed with the Bill of Rights"
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It’s ironic the Prime Minister used tonight’s speech to denounce division and seek unity, when some of the most inflammatory language we’ve seen in recent weeks has come directly from him and his Government
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🤞
#Repealthe8th
But we mustn’t forget today that there is STILL a near blanket ban on abortion in Northern Ireland. Every day women and girls are being criminalised.
Countless people are fighting this violation of women’s rights formidably & tirelessly, and that fight goes on.
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We know lots of you are planning to assemble and protest this weekend, and we want to remind you that your rights have not changed
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📢Once again📢
#VaccinePassports
will create a two-tier society where some people have access to freedoms and support, while others are shut out – with the most marginalised among us hardest hit.
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VICTORY
House of Lords votes against Gov
#PolicingBill
amendment for new protest-specific stop and search powers with suspicion.
Not in the Bill. Can't be put back in the Bill.
Huge win
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🚨BREAKING
This is it. The Government's published its
#RightsRemovalBill
that:
Strips your rights away
Means authorities don't have to respect your rights
Makes it harder to challenge abuse of your rights
It's time to fight like your rights depend on it.
#SaveYourRights
Guardian front page, Wednesday 22 June 2022: Tory bill accused of ‘fatally weakening human rights’
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For years the Gov has tried to shut down the ways people can hold it accountable for its actions:
📜weakening our rights
🪧anti-protest laws
✊anti-strike laws
🛂voter ID
🚫overriding Parliament
This is a crisis
Our case is vital to
#DefendDemocracy
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Protest banning orders are gone!
House of Lords votes against Gov
#PolicingBill
amendment.
What a win
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ANOTHER HUGE VICTORY
House of Lords has voted against new powers for suspicionless-less protest stop and search.
It can't be put back in the
#PolicingBill
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The Government is terrified of people knowing the truth about its fake bill of rights
SHARE to expose the
#RightsRemovalBill
and help
#SaveYourRights
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Shameful scenes at
#ReclaimTheseStreets
at Clapham Common.
Protesting is a right that must be protected. And women have a right to protest a lack of protection.
This is a mess.
Our Legal Observers are also noting an arbitrary and disproportionate use of force against any protesters by the Bandstand, the police are currently rounding protesters for simply standing there.
#ReclaimTheseStreets
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Protest is not a gift from the State, it’s a fundamental right.
Next week peers in the House of Lords have the chance to stand up for our rights and reject this Bill.
Alongside hundreds of other orgs we’re urging them to take it.
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If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights
Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer
Keep yourselves and each other safe
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🎂Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights🎂
The ECHR came into force 70 years ago today
And it's been making the UK a better place ever since
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We're already taking legal action against the Met for previous Legal Observer arrests.
Arresting LOs again today is scandalous.
BREAKING
Liberty Lawyers will take the Metropolitan Police to court unless the force drops fines against
@blkprotestlegal
legal observers it unlawfully arrested at a protest on Tuesday 16 March.
The Met has 2 weeks to respond.
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BREAKING
Liberty and
@Privacyint
win case against MI5 and the Home Office
MI5 agents have UNLAWFULLY SPIED ON THE PUBLIC FOR YEARS
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Today the Prime Minister will speak at
@POTUS
’s
#SummitForDemocracy
promising to 'promote respect for human rights'.
This you
@BorisJohnson
?
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Today’s vote on the
#PoliceCrackdownBill
is a dark stain on our democracy.
BUT, it has a long way to go until it become law & it can't be passed in its current form.
Now we must come together & stand up to this aggressive use of power.
#SilencingBill
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BREAKING
Europe’s highest human rights court confirms UK surveillance regime was unlawful for years.
This is the final stage of landmark litigation started in the wake of
@Snowden
revelations in 2013.
Liberty took the case with
@PrivacyInt
@Amnesty
& others. More to follow…
When Snowden exposed Gov spying on ordinary people, Liberty, PI + others took legal action.
In 2018 European Court of Human Rights said the surveillance regime violated rights.
We want it to say bulk interception of communications is inherently unlawful.
Judgment tomorrow.
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The House of Lords has voted to scrap the offence of locking on.
It's gone. Cannot be put back in the
#PolicingBill
VICTORY
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BREAKING:
@UKHouseofLords
has voted to keep the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after
#Brexit
!
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Rishi Sunak promised a government with "integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level"
We got the opposite
It's time to
#DefendDemocracy
If you're able, please support our legal challenge here:
BREAKING
Suella Braverman is set to sign off protest restrictions she has no power to create. Restrictions rejected by Parliament
Undemocratic
Unconstitutional
Unacceptable
LIBERTY'S LAWYERS HAVE STARTED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE HOME SECRETARY
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VICTORY
PROTEST IS EXEMPT FROM NEW COVID GATHERING REGULATIONS IN All 3 TIERS
(Exception 14)
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Protest isn't a gift from the State, it’s our fundamental right, and Ministers don’t get to pick & choose whose right to protest is “legitimate”.
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Let’s be clear
🔘The Equality Act has not changed
🔘It exists to protect us all
🔘We will fight any attempt to carve it up to strip vital rights away from trans people
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We're already taking action against the Met for arresting Legal Observers in March.
Continuing to arrest independent monitors is a scandalous attack on protest rights and demonstrates exactly why people are taking to the streets against plans to give the police even more powers.
Liberty condemns ‘intimidatory’ arrest of observers at ‘Kill the Bill’ protest
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BREAKING: We’ve launched legal action to ensure the Prime Minister obeys the law.
Reports say
@BorisJohnson
intends to ignore primary legislation requiring him to seek a Brexit extension
Liberty has held governments and PMs to account for 80 years. We won’t stop now
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The House of Lords has just voted to remove the part of the
#PolicingBill
that allows police to restrict static demos for causing serious disruption (clause 57)
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They think the rules don’t apply to them.
Speaking of which, what’s really going on with Gov’s plan to ‘overhaul’ our
#HumanRightsAct
?
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The first page of the
#RightsRemovalBill
(ht
@JoshuaRozenberg
) gets straight to it.
Courts don't have to interpret other laws in a way that respects people's rights.
MPs decide which of us do and don't have rights.
The. First. Page.
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We must reject the Home Secretary's dangerous and divisive rhetoric
Threats to tear up international laws designed to protect ppl fleeing persecution, incl LGBTQ+ ppl and women fearing for their lives, undermine our human rights and values we hold dear
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Protest isn't a gift from the State. It's our fundamental right.
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This is a victory for everyone who has stood against the Gov’s cruel & unlawful plan to send people seeking safety to Rwanda
Either all of us have human rights or none of us do
Just one example Gov trying to put itself above the law & international human rights principles
UK government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda unlawful, says Court of Appeal
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In a functioning democracy people must be able to stand up to power and make their voices heard
The police have a duty to facilitate our right to protest, and the government has a duty to safeguard it – neither should be using their powers to shut it down
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Imagine thinking protesters shouldn't seek attention for their cause 😅
This is a Government on the run, desperate to blame all others, turn us on one another, and remove our rights to hide themselves from accountability
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There's no
#VaccinePassport
model that respects human rights.
Bring them in and we're looking at a two-tier system where some people can access goods and services, and others are shut out.
Gov needs to scrap this plan now
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If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights
Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer
Keep yourselves and each other safe
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🚀LAUNCHING TODAY🚀
HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
#HoldingOurOwn
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Must have been someone else's Government that passed
#MandatoryVaccination
for NHS workers.
And put discriminatory
#VaccinePassports
in place.
Speaking during a visit to a vaccination centre in Northampton, the prime minister said he wanted to keep a "voluntary approach" to COVID-19 jabs, noting that other European countries are "going for coercion"
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The Home Secretary labelling pro-Palestine protests ‘hate marches’ is inflammatory
Right now we need clear and responsible leadership – not politicians sowing fear and division
Liberty stands against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all forms of discrimination
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We all want to get out of the pandemic as quickly as possible, but we can't enter a ‘new normal’ which diminishes the rights and liberties we took for granted before COVID.
We need to
#ProtectEveryone
, but passport systems entrench inequality.
🚨BREAKING🚨
We’ve launched a cross-party campaign with 70+ MPs opposing divisive and discriminatory Covid passes.
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BREAKING
Liberty wins legal case against the
#SnoopersCharter
- the powers used to spy on the UK population.
It is UNLAWFUL for security services to get people's private phone records, texts, location + internet history without independent authorisation.
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🚨The Government’s new anti-protest laws are no joke
⬇️Sign the petition to scrap them⬇️
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If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights
Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer
Keep yourselves and each other safe
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The Government’s new immigration bill will strip basic human rights protections from people seeking safety
We must stand together to
#StopTheBill
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BREAKING:
@UKHouseofLords
has dealt a huge blow to Henry VIII powers in the
#WithdrawalBill
. By a massive majority of 128, Peers voted to limit ministers' ability to amend EU law after
#Brexit
to when they can prove it is ‘necessary’ rather than ‘appropriate’. Fantastic result!
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House of Lords has voted to allow protests outside Parliament. Gov's
#PolicingBill
wanted to stop protests where they matter most.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Liberty's lawyers,
@BigBrotherWatch
and 60 cross-party MPs & Peers have written to the Home Secretary:
YOUR TREATMENT OF PROTEST RIGHTS IS ILLEGAL
FIX IT NOW
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The PM reportedly wants to “circumvent” the European Convention on Human Rights
In other words, he wants to remove the basic human rights of people fleeing war and persecution
This is dangerous and reckless stuff from a desperate Government
It must be resisted by all of us
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🚨The House of Lords has just removed Gov's plan to criminalise noisy protests from the
#PolicingBill
AGAIN
This means MPs now have the chance to get rid of it for good next week
We’re so close to defeating this undemocratic plan
Email your MP today
🚨The
#PolicingBill
is back TODAY🚨
Protest isn't a gift from the State - it's OUR RIGHT
But Gov wants to criminalise noisy protests
Noise is at the heart of protest
The House of Lords must stand up for protest rights and bin this dangerous and unworkable proposal
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If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights
Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say "no comment" without a lawyer
Keep yourselves and each other safe
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The Government's shameful new Rwanda Bill rips basic rights away from people seeking safety, puts everyone else's at risk, and places the Government above the law
It must be scrapped
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⛔️Rishi Sunak and Dominic Raab don't want you to know the truth about their
#RightsRemovalBill
⛔️
⚠️Open these images to see the small print on this "healthy dose of common sense"⚠️
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The Human Rights Act helped families of those who died at Hillsborough to get justice for their loved ones.
It's enabled disabled people to challenge removal of benefits.
It's helped LGBT veterans get their medals back after being kicked out the forces.
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BREAKING
The Court of Appeal has ruled Shamima Begum should be allowed into the UK to fight her case.
Liberty intervened in the case to fight for equal access to justice.
The right to a fair trial must apply to everyone.
Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to UK, Court of Appeal rules
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Today's European Court
#surveillance
judgment is a major victory for everyone's rights and freedoms.
It shows that there is – and should be – a limit to the extent that states can spy on their citizens.
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