You should not be arrested for protesting. This is a direct contravention of article 11 of the human rights act.
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I mean, that’s part of the point of the protests. You protest, you get arrested, you bring both attention and legal scrutiny to the issue. The kid went in knowing it was very likely. If a protest issue disruptive enough to get you arrested, it isn’t a protest, it’s a circle jerk
Syldon@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thunberg and other protestors blocked entrances at the hotel, trying to prevent delegates from entering.
I think it’s that blocking that might’ve caused the arrest, not protesting itself. As the link says
Are there any restrictions to this right?
There are some situations where a public authority can restrict your rights to freedom of assembly and association.
This is only the case where the authority can show that its action is lawful, necessary and proportionate in order to:
protect national security or public safety
prevent disorder or crime
protect health or morals, or
protect the rights and freedoms of other people.
Probably falls under the last point
Syldon@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It is loose and contentious. I have no doubt that Thunberg will use funds to take the UK court to the ECHR. She should have taken advice beforehand. I would be very surprised if she didn’t.
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If she was arrested for preventing entry its probably “okay”. Otherwise your would morons blocking access to abortion clinics and they would not be able to be arrested/dispersed. Its complicated even from moral point of view for me. I like to protest and complain but i also would like places being accessible with the current “trend” of evangelical extremisim spilling over to here… Wuats next blocking access to libraries becsuse they have a book that talks about abortion?
Madison420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty much everywhere that would be called civil disobedience, yes it’s illegal but it shouldn’t be so you take the arrest and essentially argue it’s morality.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well that’s the way to test it out
snacks@feddit.uk 11 months ago
calm down suella. making it easy for fossil fuel meetings to ignore protesters by putting them in jail is not the job of the police. These crusty arseholes need to hear what Greta has to say. The bi product, correlation not causation, is the arresting protesters of high profile makes the news and not the issue itself. And all the bellends come out to say ‘she knew she would get arrested’! The tail does not wag the dog.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Hell I’m pretty sure you can be arrested at this point for just being near a protest and looking at it the Tories are desperate to turn this country into a dictatorship. I have no idea why they can’t just calm the fuck down.
crit@links.hackliberty.org 11 months ago
Reminder that Labour has not said they’d remove any of the anti protest stuff, instead they’ll focus on other things if they win the next GE
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
FYI she’s 20 now, no longer a minor. I know some people will still call a person a “kid” at that age, hell I probably would refer to a random 20-year-old as a kid. But, I call this out since some people insist on infantalizing her so they can more easily ignore her- and her message. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing, but depending on the message you intend to send you might choose a different way to describe her in the future.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, once you start looking 50 in the old brown eye, anyone under thirty is a kid