The right to protest

The right to protest

This article argues the British government has acted in a politically vindictive manner in its prosecution of the scores of people arrested during the student and public sector protests of late 2010 and early 2011. The author contends that there is a gross disparity in the charge of 'violent di...

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Published in:Radical philosophy no. 174; pp. 57 - 58
Main Author: Power, Nina
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 01-07-2012
Subjects:
College Students
Colleges
Criminal Proceedings
Disorders
Expenditures
Norms
Police
Police Community Relations
Prisons
Public Sector
Students
Trials
United Kingdom
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Summary:This article argues the British government has acted in a politically vindictive manner in its prosecution of the scores of people arrested during the student and public sector protests of late 2010 and early 2011. The author contends that there is a gross disparity in the charge of 'violent disorder' leveled against these protesters and the actual allegations of which they stand accused. The author maintains that these protesters are being punished several times over: often injured by police during the protest, then charged, spending months awaiting trial, tried, sent to prison, released and then forced to face humiliating para-legal committees set up by the very universities and colleges which the they had been fighting to preserve. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:0300-211X