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Make desecration of the Union Flag within the United Kingdom a criminal offence

Submitted on Thursday 23rd March 2017

Rejected on Monday 3rd April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make desecration of the Union Flag within the United Kingdom a criminal offence

Petition Details

Create a new Act that makes deliberately defacing or burning the Union Flag and or imagery that depicts similar, illegal within the United Kingdom. The question of whether or not to prosecute in individual cases will be the responsibility of the police and the courts.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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