Parliament Protest
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Parliament Protest promotes peaceful resistance to the curtailment of free assembly and free speech, in the SOCPA Designated Area around Parliament Square and beyond.
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Peers protest at curbs on protestBaroness Williams earlier led a Lib Dem protest outside Parliament calling for the end of restrictions on protests.
A controversial 2005 law created an "exclusion zone" around Parliament, within which police must be given notice before a protest is held.
Lib Dem peer Baroness Miller has brought forward a Bill to abolish the sections which impose the restrictions. During the demo outside the House of Lords the peers read out names of people arrested under the Act.
The protest came as peers prepared to debate repealing parts of the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act. A Liberal Democrat spokesman confirmed they had registered with police to hold the demonstration. "It comes to something when Parliamentarians can't even protest outside their own House without say so from the police," he said.
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What is happening in Parliament Square?January 2007
Brian & Co are still in the Square. Since the police's middle of the night raid on 23 May 2006 in which most of Brian's display and possessions were removed, the presence in Parliament Square is smaller but not diminished in spirit.
Brian and others have been in court on charges relating to the restrictions on protest around Parliament under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
On 23 November Brian's supporters gathered to mark his 2000th day and night for peace and justice. This is an historic achievement in the face of such opposition by the government but it is also of great sadness that such an action has been necessary at all.
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