Defend the right to protest
Brian Haw, who has decorated Parliament Square for years with his protest first against economic sanctions on Iraq, then against the recent war, and now against the occupation, was arrested in the night on Sunday 9 May.
There was an anti-terrorist cordon put down, during which Brian was arrested for allegedly assaulting the police. Actually, he was unceremoniously lifted and hauled off, and his placards etcetera removed and loaded into a van. Thus the British state hoped to put an end to what they doubtless regard as an embarrassing messy eyesore spoiling tourists' happy snaps of the Palace of Westminster, but actually the most beautiful and honourable thing in the whole square.
Brian was released next day and returned to the Square to retrieve his personal effects, which had been saved by supporters.
Brian's supporters will be working on a legal challenge to this attack on the right to protest.
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