London (AFP) – A new report released by Human Rights Watch warns that the UK has “severely restricted the right to protest” in recent years with a string of measures against peaceful demonstrators. Speaking to AFP, the NGO’s UK Director Yasmine Ahmed desribes the report as “a warning bell,” explaining that “the UK government is silencing the streets” and has, rather than pulling back restrictive legislation brought in by the preceding Conservative party, has “supercharged it and imposed further restrictions.”
