{"id":80171,"date":"2021-03-16T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1099518"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:34:00","slug":"one-sentence-from-priti-patel-about-the-policing-bill-makes-a-mockery-of-government-support-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/16\/one-sentence-from-priti-patel-about-the-policing-bill-makes-a-mockery-of-government-support-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"One sentence from Priti Patel about the policing bill makes a mockery of government support for women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home secretary Priti Patel has made a mockery out of government support for women. Patel claimed<\/a> yesterday that the government is committed to tackling violence against women, saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am listening to women and girls up and down the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She went on to defend the policing bill, saying it would end the halfway releases of those convicted of sexual offences and extend the sexual offences act.<\/p>\n

But Patel isn’t listening even to women MPs, let alone women across the country. Because several of them have united to get her controversial policing bill thrown out amid accusations that it will allow police to crack down on the right to protest.<\/p>\n

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Streatham, has put forward an amendment that would stop the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is on day two<\/a> of its second reading in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

The amendment has been supported by MPs across parties, including the Green’s Caroline Lucas, Labour’s Apsana Begum, Plaid Cymru’s Liz Savile-Roberts, and the SNP’s Kirstin Oswald.<\/p>\n

It comes in the wake of multiple civil rights groups speaking<\/a> out against the bill, and protests against it across the country.<\/p>\n

The amendment<\/h5>\n

The proposed amendment blocks the bill progressing further on the grounds that it is an attack on civil liberties and could increase racial and gendered inequalities in the criminal justice system, such as:<\/p>\n