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Research finds people are potentially being criminalised for breaching something which is essentially a civil injunction
Exactly what has happened to our @ChrisNineham and @PSCupdates @BenJamal48
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https://t.co/jeGX8Kd2u5
Funny how the law and order guys never think it applies to them 🙄
He’s again blaming the courts, the protesters and those attacked by police all for his appalling and illegal attempts to ban dissent

Met Commissioner Mark Rowley is allowing the fascist Tommy Robinson into the whole of central London but won't give the annual #Nakba day a route
This is about our right to protest! @LindseyAGerman
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Bravo!! Well done to the #activists who refused to accept the undemocratic actions of #ChrisMinns & the #NSWALP.
#DefendTheRightToProtest
#FreeSpeech #DefendFreeSpeech
#BREAKING: Controversial laws to restrict protests in New South Wales following the Bondi terrorist attack have been struck down by the state's top court.
https://t.co/I6tMsP5kGo
Good report of yesterday's #DefendTheRightToProtest protest outside parliament, as MPs debated the government's latest authoritarian crackdown on protests
Erosion of rights: UK Parliament passes bill limiting protests
https://t.co/QrClTn6vvi
Another grim day for democracy. MP’s voted yesterday to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests. It’s the cumulative nature of protest that has spoke truth to power & brought about progressive change #DefendTheRightToProtest

From climate justice to Palestine solidarity, peaceful protest is under attack. Greens will keep fighting for our right to protest. Democracy dies when the streets are quiet. 🌱 #DefendTheRightToProtest #CrimeAndPolicingBill #GreenParty @TheGreenParty https://t.co/XBkeF3fVd5
📢 Join us and the Palestine Coalition outside Parliament tomorrow evening as the draconian Crime & Policing bill goes through its final stages before becoming law
⏰ 6pm
📍 Downing Street
#DefendTheRightToProtest

📢 Join us and the Palestine Coalition outside Parliament tomorrow evening as the draconian Crime & Policing bill goes through its final stages before becoming law
⏰ 6pm
📍 Downing Street
#DefendTheRightToProtest

#DefendTheRightToProtest
https://t.co/RJxo1pyZVX
Proud to have stood with Ben and Chris for so long and I’ll continue to do so
Today’s verdict was a travesty of justice. A judge who wouldn’t even give verbal reasons
Disrespectful at the very least
We must keep fighting to #defendtherighttoprotest

Anti-war activists warn of ‘chilling’ consequences of their convictions
https://t.co/EsfbaFszbJ
Speeches today outside Westminster Magistrates Court before the sentencing of Ben Jamal & Chris Nineham.
#DefendtheRighttoProtest
#DefendTheRightToProtest
The fight to defend the right to protest must not stop
Solidarity to Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham
The judge has ruled that Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham are guilty on all charges. This is a disgraceful decision. We will follow up soon with a full statement. Our right to protest is precious, and is undermined by this decision, but the fight is not over.

🚨BREAKING -- Declassified attended the Filton 24 press conference today, where five recently released Palestine Action activists revealed shocking details about their experience in prison.
Teuta Hoxha began by explaining that her mind is "not as sharp as it used to be before the hunger strike". She said prison guards issued threats of 14 years in jail for saying "Free Palestine" and claimed the Palestine flag was akin to a neo-Nazi symbol.
She also brandished an evidence bag of photos of children in Gaza, which she said had been confiscated from her while in prison.
Teuta, who went on hunger strike, said the government was "willing to let us die for a ban that was ruled unlawful and to deny bail that was later granted".
Speaking directly to home secretary Shabana Mahmood about the proscription of Palestine Action, she declared: "Enough damage has been done. The appeal must be withdrawn".
Heba Muraisi said she has not heard from her family in Gaza for 27 months as they suffer from a genocidal campaign of extermination at the hands of the Israeli forces.
On being arrested, she recalled how the police used chainsaws to rip through her front door and went on to violate her dignity by exposing her body to the public on the street.
Heba subsequently spent 73 days on hunger strike during which time she was not given electrolytes despite requests.
Maddie Norman said after her arrest, she wasn't given a phone call for 14 days and was therefore unable to tell her mom where she had been taken.
In jail, she was put on an "escape list", meaning she was forced to wear an "escape suit", creating conditions which restricted her ability to access medicine and make phone calls.
Maddie was told by guards that she had been put on the "escape list" because of undefined "intel". The guards subsequently said she’d been put on the list because she had been drawing in her cell and sketching in the yard. One day the guards came and said drawing the prison was "prohibited" and signalled an effort to escape.
Maddie's poster - which said "bombing kids is not self-defence" – was also taken away for "extremism".
She condemned the government's "unprecedented Draconian response" to direct action and said it is designed to scare the public away from expressing solidarity with Palestine.
Qesser Zuhrar opened by saying the prisoners for Palestine "are the collateral damage of Britain's immoral allegiance to the Israeli state".
She recalled how she was assaulted by guards twice in prison - once for requesting help for a suicidal prisoner and a second time for the mere act of crying. "The purpose of oppression is to humiliate - from the occupation of Palestine... to our own imprisonment", she said.
While on hunger strike, Qesser said that she was left to die for 22 hours “on my cell floor - or at least the guards wanted me to believe they would let me die". The guards even left the cell door open, knowing she was unable to move. It was only after public pressure that she was taken to hospital.
Kamran Ahmed explained how, when police raided his house, his disabled mother was told by police officers she had to walk 15 minutes to the nearest take-away restaurant if she wanted to eat, despite being unable to climb stairs.
"I am one of 24 humanitarian activists who were kidnapped by British counter-terror police", he said.

#DefendTheRightToProtest
Today activists & MPs supported the campaign to defend the right to protest. Activists then went to Parliament to lobby their MPs
Campaign organised by @PSCupdates & @AmnestyUK & many supporting groups

Good report in the @M_Star_Online of today's #DefendTheRightToProtest demo outside Westminster Mags Ct and of the first day's proceedings – which ended with the trial of @ChrisNineham and @BenJamalpsc being adjourned to Thursday – we'll see you back in court!

Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal arriving at Westminster Magistrate’s Court for the start of their trial, with hundreds outside defending them ✊ #DefendTheRightToProtest #PalestineSolidarityIsNotACrime
We're outside Wesminster Magistrates' Court this morning in solidarity with @PSCupdates's Ben Jamal and @STWuk's Chris Nineham. Protesting for Palestine is not a crime. #DropTheCharges #DefendTheRightToProtest

Demo starting to build outside Westminster Magistrates’ Ct for Chris and Ben’s trial
#DropTheCharges #DefendTheRightToProtest

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