Rejected petition 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/

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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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Why was this petition rejected?

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: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579012

Remove single person protest clauses in Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578875

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 12 March 2021
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