Submitted on Friday 12th March 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 17th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Protect Our Right to Protest
Government and Parliament must oppose the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that unnecessarily criminalises the publics right to protest. They must instead enforce the Charter For Freedom of Assembly Rights as endorsed by Netpol: https://netpol.org/Charter/
Government and Parliament must oppose this Bill in all its forms.
They must acknowledge and denounce the authoritarian nature of this Bill, that gives police unjustified power to criminalise any public protest due to its deliberately vague language.
They must acknowledge and denounce the deliberate infringement upon the publics right to protest. As well as the disturbing implications of criminalising protests in support of the rights of protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.
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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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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Do not restrict our rights to peaceful protest: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579012
Remove single person protest clauses in Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578875
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