A photo of a protester with a megaphone with text overlaid reading "Your right to protest is being eroded"

The Public Order Act is the government’s latest legislation which restricts the right to protest in the UK.

On episode 7 of #BrightGreenLive, we spoke to Jodie Beck from Liberty about the how the Public Order Act has is undermining the right to protest, its relationship to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the arrests made at the King’s coronation and how protest rights should be protected.

Watch the full interview here:

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