UK’s assault on right to protest rapped

The Save Leyton Marsh group said the “Defend the Right to Protest: The Olympics and Beyond” gathering, which is planned for today on June 26 in Walthamstow, northeast London, is organized with the aim of defending our civil liberties in the face of Olympics authorities’ assault, unnecessarily destructing Leyton Marsh, a popular local green space, for the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Defend the Right to Protest campaign also added that its members and Leyton Marsh have fallen victim to the most commercial and militarized Olympics ever, as East London will see more than 20,000 police, 21,000 private security staff, MOD and FBI staff armed to suppress dissents.

The Olympics authorities served three High Court injunctions, jailed three peaceful protestors and a journalist, and also issued campaigner Simon Moore with the first Olympic Anti-Social Behavior Order (ASBO).

Simon Moore, Alfie Meadows, who was attacked by the police and sustained brain injury during the student protests of December 2010 in London, and Caroline Day, a member of the Save Leyton Marsh group, are among the speakers of the rally.

Earlier on April, Six protesters were arrested in east London after police and bailiffs evicted a camp supported by Occupy London movement opposing the construction of an Olympic facility on the green space Leyton Marsh.

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