Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance is among the politicians – celebrities – and civil rights campaigners condemning a Palestine march ban imposed by the police.
Cross-party MPs and peers, trade union general secretaries, cultural figures and celebrities, writers, journalists, health workers and civil society organisations and activists have condemned police attempts to remove conditions which have been agreed, in order to stop an agreed Protest for Palestine taking place at the BBC on Saturday, January 18.
In a statement by the six organisations behind the national Palestine marches, and supported by at least 150 high profile individuals and organisations including Liberty, Amnesty International and Greenpeace, the Metropolitan Police are accused of misusing public order powers to shield the BBC from democratic scrutiny.
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Among those to have signed the statement are musician Brian Eno, singer-songwriter Charlotte Church, actors Mark Rylance, Khalid Abdalla, Nadia Sawalha and Juliet Stevenson, author Susan Abulhawa, economist Yanis Varoufakis, Akiko Hart, the director of Liberty and Asad Rehman, executive director, War on Want, along with leading health workers, including London Hospital A&E doctor Dr Andrew Myerson.
Labour, Independent, Green, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein and SNP MPs have signed, while trade union leaders include PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch, the NEU’s Daniel Kebede and FBU leader Matt Wrack.
The route of the march was agreed by the Met in November. That organisation has now reneged on the agreement, citing possible disruption to a synagogue which is not on the route of the march.
Making the point about the preciousness of the rights to freedom of speech and protest, the statement concludes: “It is not acceptable in a democratic society that, in the face of an ongoing genocide in Gaza, people should be barred from protesting at the BBC. We call on the police to drop their objections and allow the protest to go ahead as planned.”
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Politicians – celebrities – and civil rights campaigners condemning a Palestine march ban state their case
Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance is among the politicians – celebrities – and civil rights campaigners condemning a Palestine march ban imposed by the police.
Cross-party MPs and peers, trade union general secretaries, cultural figures and celebrities, writers, journalists, health workers and civil society organisations and activists have condemned police attempts to remove conditions which have been agreed, in order to stop an agreed Protest for Palestine taking place at the BBC on Saturday, January 18.
In a statement by the six organisations behind the national Palestine marches, and supported by at least 150 high profile individuals and organisations including Liberty, Amnesty International and Greenpeace, the Metropolitan Police are accused of misusing public order powers to shield the BBC from democratic scrutiny.
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Among those to have signed the statement are musician Brian Eno, singer-songwriter Charlotte Church, actors Mark Rylance, Khalid Abdalla, Nadia Sawalha and Juliet Stevenson, author Susan Abulhawa, economist Yanis Varoufakis, Akiko Hart, the director of Liberty and Asad Rehman, executive director, War on Want, along with leading health workers, including London Hospital A&E doctor Dr Andrew Myerson.
Labour, Independent, Green, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein and SNP MPs have signed, while trade union leaders include PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch, the NEU’s Daniel Kebede and FBU leader Matt Wrack.
The route of the march was agreed by the Met in November. That organisation has now reneged on the agreement, citing possible disruption to a synagogue which is not on the route of the march.
Making the point about the preciousness of the rights to freedom of speech and protest, the statement concludes: “It is not acceptable in a democratic society that, in the face of an ongoing genocide in Gaza, people should be barred from protesting at the BBC. We call on the police to drop their objections and allow the protest to go ahead as planned.”
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