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Proceeding contribution from David Howarth (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 4 February 2010. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Human Rights.


Human Rights

The problem, as I observed it in the G20 situation, was that both police and protesters assumed that any contact with the other side would reveal information to the other side, in some kind of tactical battle in which the police's main objective appeared to the protesters to be to prevent the protest from happening at all. Therefore, it is important that the starting point changes, and that the protesters are confident that the police's objective is to facilitate the protest and not to stop it.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
505 c178WH 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Subjects
Demonstrations Cameras Human rights Journalism Injunctions Police Powers Stop and search
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk