A CAMPAIGN group has accused the Metropolitan Police and Houses of Parliament of “suppressing peaceful protest” after objecting to a planned…
The campaign group said the 'objections are a clear attempt to suppress and diminish the right to protest'
The House of Commons objected to the protest as “the House of Commons will be sitting and this would cause significant disruption to the business of the House”.He said: “The objections from parliament are nonsensical and profoundly undemocratic. They fly in the face of democratic principles and the fundamental right to peacefully protest.
Smith wrote: “Were such objections allowed to prevail it would mean that citizens could only protest against parliament when parliament was empty of MPs and not engaged in the very business about which people wish to protest. "It is a poor reflection on the state of our democracy that is compounded by your objections to peaceful protest.”
Republic confirmed the protest will go ahead but has been moved to the pavement on the corner of Parliament Street, near Westminster station.
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