Police accused of ‘assault on right to protest’ after less than 3% of nuisance arrests result in charges
According to new research, less than three percent of all protests arrests result in charges, because campaignists call on an end to anti -protest measures.
The data obtained by Greenpeace through requests of freedom of information show that only 18 arrests made by the metropolitan police for a conspiracy in order to cause public boredom in the last six years show that only 18 arrests have resulted in charges.
His research has also increased almost ten times in the number of arrests in the capital since 2019. Compared to 67 arrests and accusations in order to cause a public boredom between 2012 and 2018, compared with more than 600 arrests and 18 charges since 2019, the rate of arrest resulted in charges fell less than 12 percent.
Areeba Hamid, the co -director of Greenpeace UK, accused the police for çi routinely dragging the protesters to accuse almost always to blame the streets ”.
“It is a frightening development in any democracy because they are politically disturbing, it is a frightening development in any democracy, and the instinct of the government’s closure of free conversation and preventing people from keeping up with their depth.”
The campaigns, the sharp increase in arrests, overlaps with the rebellion of extinction, and on Fridays in the future to cope with climate change calls to the streets of thousands of people in the streets of London said.
Findings are launching a campaign for the right to protest for the right to protest, as they invited the right to express the right to express the right to express the right to express themselves in the two basic laws since 2022 to the home secretary, to the home secretary.
Khalid Abdallah, an actor CrownAfter a pro -Palestinian protest in January, the police were carefully discussed in March.
As part of the campaign to stand up for the right to protest, he said: “I think many people do not realize that the oppression under the protest is not only more difficult for destructive civil disobedience, it is an important test of whether you live in a free, democratic country.
“I have lived in the countries where the rights we value in the UK did not exist and my family paid the price of speaking. So I didn’t expect Britain to be the first to be investigated by the police for the participation of a public protest. Until six months confirmed that the police would not take more action.
“We accept the importance of the right to protest, but in cases where the protest is guilty, we have the task to intervene using the existing forces.
“The threshold of the arrest is a reasonable doubt that a crime has occurred. One of the blames is significantly higher, and civil servants should show enough evidence to ensure realistic conviction in court.
“It is particularly difficult to prove that an individual conspiracy with others in order to cause public discomfort at this standard. This is reflected in a limited number of charges for this crime.”
The suspicion of conspiracy to cause problems is a crime in 2022, the police, crime, criminal and court law used by the police to arrest protesters. The bill caused controversy when it passed, and a series of ‘kill the bill’ rallies in the UK fought against it.
Campaigns also asked ministers to open some protests in the draft crime and police progressing throughout the parliament.
A substance that causes a special concern, a substance that allows the police to request one month imprisonment, a fine of £ 1,000 or a one -month penalty in both, and to ask them to remove the items used to hide their identity.
The written evidence presented by Big Brother Watch, Liberty, Privacy International and Stop Watch called these new provisions as “unnecessary ve and warned“ safely and freely threatening our right to protest.
