UK: ‘New’ police powers to tackle protest yet another attempt to clamp down on human rights
Responding to news that the Home Secretary is to hand police broader powers to tackle repeat protests, Tom Southerden, Amnesty International UK’s Law and Human Rights Director, said:
“The ‘new’ powers announced by the Home Secretary today are not new at all – they are a reheat of powers that the last Government tried to push through under regulations that the courts found to be unlawful.
“They bear no relation to yesterday’s Defend Our Juries protest, which was at a new location and was targeted at the Government over its draconian misuse of anti-terror laws.”
