{"id":57030,"date":"2021-02-28T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/28\/government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests"},"modified":"2021-02-28T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T09:15:09","slug":"government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/28\/government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Government seeks to retain lockdown limits on protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Priti Patel obtains advice on ensuring post-Covid demonstrations do not impact on \u2018rights of others to go about their business\u2019<\/p><p>Concern over the government\u2019s limitation of the right to protest during lockdown continues to mount after it emerged that the home secretary, Priti Patel, is eager to grant police greater powers to control demonstrations once the Covid restrictions are lifted.<\/p><p>In a letter to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services (HMICFRS) Patel wrote that although she appreciates protest is \u201ca cornerstone of our democracy\u201d she wanted to know how the Home Office could help police ensure protests in the future do not impact on \u201cthe rights of others to go about their daily business\u201d.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/feb\/14\/drones-police-england-monitor-political-protests-blm-extinction-rebellion\">Drones used by police to monitor political protests in England<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/28\/government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/feb\/28\/government-seeks-to-retain-lockdown-limits-on-protests\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priti Patel obtains advice on ensuring post-Covid demonstrations do not impact on \u2018rights of others to go about their business\u2019Concern over the government\u2019s limitation of the right to protest during lockdown continues to mount after it emerged that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3333,338,3056,6,640,13,14,3057,1156,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57031,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57030\/revisions\/57031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}