Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780108473227
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Book Synopsis Facilitating peaceful protest by : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Download or read book Facilitating peaceful protest written by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published a report on the policing of recent protests in central London and the preparations for the forthcoming 'March for the Alternative' planned for this Saturday, 26 March 2011. The policing of protest engages several human rights, including freedom of expression and assembly, the right to life, the prohibition against inhuman or degrading treatment, and rights to liberty and privacy. The report welcomes the advance cooperation between the police and organisers of the TUC march, and the planned involvement of human rights observers in the control room on the day of the march itself. It also welcomes police initiatives to communicate better with protestors by using leaflets and Twitter. But concerns remain about kettling and the use of batons, including: a lack of clarity about the circumstances in which the police can resort to containment or 'kettling', and the apparent lack of opportunity for non-violent protesters to leave; the lack of specific guidance setting out the circumstances in which the use of the baton against the head might be justifiable. To meet the human rights requirement that the use of force should be proportionate, operational guidance to frontline officers needs to address this issue specifically and directly; the need for a nimble system for assimilating lessons learned.