Sarah Everard vigil ban was breach of human rights, activists tell court

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Reclaim These Streets raised tens of thousands of pounds to fund judicial review of Met’s decision

Women’s rights activists argued at the high court on Wednesday that the police’s decision to ban a vigil forThe Metropolitan police were criticised last March after using force to break up the vigil on Clapham Common, close to where Everard, 33, was, an officer in an elite Met police firearms unit, before he murdered her.

“What we didn’t want was that to set a precedent for the police to decide which protests they agreed with and which protests they didn’t. So we hope that the case will set a useful precedent that helps to protect protest rights – and make sure that women’s voices aren’t silenced in the future.” RTS said that if the judicial review were successful it would set a precedent that police could not use decisions made in parliament to “evade their human rights responsibilities”.

 

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