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SOCPA Arrest

Andy | 22.02.2008 10:58 | SOCPA | Repression | London | World

Simon from We Are Change UK gets arrested for demonstrating illegally within the
SOCPA Zone.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4dvlkJCCo

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) was introduced into the House of Commons on 24 November 2004 and was passed by Parliament and given Royal Assent in April 2005.

The Act is controversial primarily for an additional, entirely unrelated provision, which restricts the right to demonstrate within an exclusion zone of up to one kilometre from any point in Parliament Square. Demonstrators have to apply to the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police six days in advance, or if this is not reasonably practicable then no less than 24 hours in advance. No equivalent provision is made for any other Parliament in the United Kingdom.

In October 2007, the Home Office published a public consultation document, Managing Protest Around Parliament [5], which 'takes another look at sections 132-138 (of SOCPA) and explores whether there is another way to address the situation that would both uphold the right to protest while also giving police the powers they need to keep the peace'. Campaigners are worried that this document contains new threats to freedom of assembly and the right to protest in that is suggests that there could be 'harmonisation of powers to manage marches and assemblies' throughout the UK.

 http://www.repeal-socpa.info/

Andy

Comments

Display the following 20 comments

  1. Another Shame — Taper
  2. Coplovers have no imagination. — ACAB
  3. What do you expect? — Taper
  4. Well done — Dave
  5. any means necessary — @ngry
  6. Coplovers of the world unite — ACAB
  7. First you have to understand... — the tman cometh
  8. Lies and distortions — dh
  9. Honestly — Tbone Steak
  10. Smear — dh
  11. 911cultwatch.org.uk support Nico Haupt a Redwatch style stalker — chrisc
  12. More diversionary — dh
  13. Hmm — chrisc
  14. But more to the point — dh
  15. Machon is NOT an informant. wink wink — why bother
  16. Designed to do this — Pj Ronald
  17. This is an insult — trex
  18. Deconstructing some of the absurd disinfo... — chrisc
  19. Evenin' All! — Det. Undercover
  20. Cultwatch ditch Nico Haupt and adopt Truthwatch... — chrisc

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