Submitted on Sunday 11th September 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make desecration of a national flag in public a criminal offence
In the case of R v Percy 2001, the defendant was convicted under Section 5 Public Order Act 1986 (threatening, abusive, insulting words/behaviour within the hearing/sight of a person likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress) for defacing and standing on an American flag outside a US Air Force Base on UK soil. The defendant appealed against her conviction, which was upheld because the conviction was deemed to be incompatible with Article 10 of the Human Rights Act - Freedom of expression.
Desecration of a national flag in pursuit of political protest should not be allowed and is an attack on a country's national identity.
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