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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Human rights laws ‘not stopping protest prosecutions’, CPS chief says after Braverman attacks

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Human rights laws are not stopping environmental protesters being charged with crimes, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said after Suella Braverman called for harsher enforcement.

Following a wave of disruptive protests on the M25 by Just Stop Oil, the home secretary told police they should take a “firmer line” and claimed a Supreme Court ruling on freedom of expression was being “misinterpreted”.

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