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Earlier this year, openDemocracy explored how successive governments had cracked down on protest rights. Now, with Just Stop Oil activists facing lengthy sentences for "conspiring" to commit protest offences, the impact of these laws is being felt more than ever. We sat down with human rights lawyer Katy Watts to discuss the sentencing, and how she and the NGO Liberty won a legal challenge against the government's new protest laws.
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Presented by Sian Norris
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Long sentences for protestors
03:21 Protestors new-found reluctance
05:41 Broadening definitions of what is criminal
08:30 A framework for authoritarians
09:50 What inspired the clamp down on protest?
12:10 Holding the government to account in court
16:04 Labour defending Conservative policies
18:28 What happens to those arrested unlawfully?
19:35 Neutering protests
21:12 These protest laws target everyone
24:56 Concerns about Labour's approach to protest
27:37 What does solidarity mean to you?
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Earlier this year, openDemocracy explored how successive governments had cracked down on protest rights. Now, with Just Stop Oil activists facing lengthy sentences for "conspiring" to commit protest offences, the impact of these laws is being felt more than ever. We sat down with human rights lawyer Katy Watts to discuss the sentencing, and how she and the NGO Liberty won a legal challenge against the government's new protest laws.
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Credits:
Presented by Sian Norris
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18:28 What happens to those arrested unlawfully?
19:35 Neutering protests
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