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Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers

Appleton, Josie
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2924226/freedom_of_speech_assembly_protest_all_are_nixed_by_new_police_powers.html

Publisher:  The Ecologist
Date Written:  26/06/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.

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