The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Britain has strict contempt laws intended to protect jurors from interference.
46% : Hundreds of Just Stop Oil activists have been detained by police within moments of starting to walk.
44% : He later proposed breaking international law by reneging on the U.K.'s exit treaty with the EU.
41% : For hanging a banner reading Just Stop Oil off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence.
40% : Structural engineer Morgan Trowland was one of two Just Stop Oil activists who scaled the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the River Thames near London in October 2022, forcing police to shut the highway below for 40 hours.
38% : The divorce brought to power Boris Johnson, who vowed to "get Brexit done," but appeared unprepared for the complexities involved in unpicking decades of ties with the EU.
35% : The protesters, from groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, argue that civil disobedience is justified by a climate emergency that threatens humanity's future.
33% : Some protesters have received prison sentences that have been called unduly punitive.

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