Hundreds picket court to demand end to govt’s criminalisation of peaceful protest

Starmer’s assault on right to protest and speak freely drives second picket of Attorney General’s office

Hundreds have blocked a London street today in a picket of the Attorney General’s office to demand the end of the government’s assault on freedoms of speech and protest, which has escalated even further since Keir Starmer got into Downing Street.

The Defend our Juries group said of its campaign:

Hundreds have arrived at the Attorney General’s office to occupy the road for a limited period. The demand is clear – the Attorney General must meet with us for a transparent meeting to discuss the attack on freedom to protest & the imprisonment of peaceful activists.

Since Starmer and his Labour-right acolytes got into government courtesy of the neo-fascist Reform ‘party’, he and the state apparatus has been waging a war of intimidation and criminalisation on anti-genocide and climate protesters – raiding homes, detaining campaigners at airports, prosecuting and imposing disproportionate sentences in many cases, except where juries have refused to follow judges’ orders and have acquitted based on their consciences and the political and humanitarian grounds for the protesters’ actions.

Journalists who accurately cover Israel’s genocide in Gaza have also been especially targeted for harassment and seizure of the tools of their trade.

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