Submitted on Sunday 14th March 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill 2021 - protect right to protest
The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill 2021 aims to give the police sweeping new powers to restrict protest. Currently, police can restrict where there are negative risks such as 'disorder and damage'. Under this law, they could stop protests where 'noise' causes a 'significant impact'.
Free speech and the right to protest is the backbone of British democracy. From the chartists' movement to the suffragettes, Britain prides itself on being a safe place to make one's voice heard.
Under this new law, the government can justify shutting down any protest which causes noise that impacts upon an organisation or even a single bystander.
Such an attack on free speech and the right to protest is unprecedented. Whether you are left or right, we must come together to protect our rights.
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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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