Europe’s most senior human rights official has urged the British government to review its protest laws over the recent proscription of Palestine Action as a terror organisation.
Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said in a letter to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood that the UK’s legal framework allows authorities to “impose excessive limits on freedom of assembly and expression, and risk overpolicing”.
His intervention comes after Middle East Eye revealed last month that four times as many people had been charged in the UK under Section 13 counterterrorism powers since Palestine Action was proscribed in July as during the entire “war on terror” since 2001.
Aye but that’s who Keir and Co. are trying to court votes from. It would be stupid to arrest your new voter base.
It would be even more stupid of course to think they’ll ever vote Labour, when Reform are more openly racist and populist, but that’s the modern Labour party.