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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Karen McVeigh

UK ministers to be challenged in human rights court over protest injunctions

Protesters at the Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool in 2018.
Cuadrilla used a ‘persons unknown’ injunction at its Preston New Road fracking site near Blackpool. Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters

The government is to be challenged at the European court of human rights over its use of “confusing and opaque” anti-protest injunctions.

The environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) is to argue such injunctions allow private companies to create bespoke public order laws that stifle peaceful protest.

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