Police back down on ‘pay-to-protest’ demand, but right to assembly still at risk – activists

‘UK authorities who insisted activists spend thousands of pounds on a private security firm to steward a peaceful climate change march in London have backed down following intense pressure. Campaigners insist they will not “pay to protest.”

Last month, Britain’s Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) was instructed to hire a private security company to monitor its Time to Act demonstration scheduled for early March.

The request came as Scotland Yard refused to oversee the temporary closure of streets along the group’s agreed route through central London.’

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