Protest crackdown: UK democracy faces scrutiny over rights and freedoms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : For hanging a banner reading "Just Stop Oil" off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year sentence.
42% : Groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Insulate Britain argue that civil disobedience is justified, but Mr. Sunak has called them "ideological zealots.
36% : When lawmakers blocked his attempts to leave the EU without an agreement, he suspended Parliament - until the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that illegal.
35% : In recent months, hundreds of Just Stop Oil activists have been detained under a new rule that criminalizes slow walking protests.
33% : Some protesters have received prison sentences that have been called unduly punitive.

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