Submitted on Sunday 14th March 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Protect the right to non-violent protest.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill grants sweeping powers to block non-violent protest to this or any future Home Secretary. It will ease the path for them to decide if a protest, however peaceful, will be dis-allowed, and allow citizens to be needlessly criminalised.
I would like this bill to be amended to limit the powers granted, which include the power to define what constitutes “disruption”(e.g as minimal as elevated noise).
I believe MPs should have the chance to vote on each element of the bill. I would like this Bill to be impact assessed for risks of it silencing diverse voices, and blocking the voices of those not yet eligible to vote, and for the risks of discriminatory surveillance.
For a protest to be impactful it must make an impact.
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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 pass the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579242
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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