{"id":29489,"date":"2025-10-05T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/civil-liberty-groups-express-concern-over-plan-for-more-anti-protest-powers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:05:46","slug":"civil-liberty-groups-express-concern-over-plan-for-more-anti-protest-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/civil-liberty-groups-express-concern-over-plan-for-more-anti-protest-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti-protest powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary says police can consider \u2018cumulative impact\u2019 of demonstrations as Palestine Action ban opponents vow \u2018escalation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a \u201cmajor escalation\u201d of their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Shabana Mahmood said on Sunday that repeated large-scale demonstrations over Gaza had caused \u201cconsiderable fear\u201d for the Jewish community in the wake of a fatal terror attack on a synagogue last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/oct\/05\/police-to-get-new-powers-to-crack-down-on-repeated-protests-says-home-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home secretary says police can consider \u2018cumulative impact\u2019 of demonstrations as Palestine Action ban opponents vow \u2018escalation\u2019 Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a \u201cmajor escalation\u201d of their campaign. Shabana Mahmood said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 12:12:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}