UK Human Rights Lawyer Condemns Police Brutality at Protests
Submitted on August 6, 2011
By Tracy McVeigh and Mark Townsend - Saturday 6 August 2011
Michael Mansfield QC said "outrageous" tactics were being employed to quash political protest and peaceful demonstrations in the UK, within politics, the police and the judiciary...Mansfield said the right to protest in Britain was under serious threat and that people who wanted to go on peaceful demonstrations now had to weigh up the risks they faced from heavy policing and draconian sentencing.
