DAY-MER is called for action against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, one of the new powers would mean police chiefs will be able to put more conditions on static protests, this has been accused as many to be an attack on freedom of speech and right to protest.
In a statement, Day-Mer said: “This bill, which we can call the police law or the new police law in short, came to the point of being put to the voting in the parliament quietly until the Sarah Everard memorial service. Until the Sarah Everard commemoration was banned. Despite the prohibition of the commemoration, the new police law started to be heard and known and learned by the wider public, with the mass participation and the police detaining the women participating in the demonstration with reverse handcuffs on the ground. The women’s protests against the murder of Sarah and the police violence were combined with those who opposed the police law with the slogan “we will not leave the streets”… In the past weeks, the protests have spread to many places, especially in Bristol, Manchester and Sheffield. Those who highlighted the burning of police cars in the main media and tried to throw mud at the protesters did not mention the violence and the extent of the police in the same protests. Images in alternative media and social media showed us the pre-rehearsals of the implementation of the new police law.
“Turkish immigrants as labourers; As people who have seen, lived or heard of oppression, torture and fascism, we know closely what it means to increase the authority of the police, shorten our democratic rights and prevent opposition that will develop in the streets with punishments. Therefore, it is a responsibility for our tomorrow to participate in meetings and especially actions held with local and other immigrant workers against the restriction of our democratic rights, the obstruction of our right to protest, silencing and punishment policies in the country we live in. We must respond to the prohibition of our right to protest on the streets with more mass protests and actions on the streets, but in this way, we can ensure that the law is not passed or has no provision even if it is passed. That’s why the Day-Mer Turkish and Kurdish origin in Turkey labourers, especially on Friday, April 2 and April 3, we urge you to participate in other protests.”
On Friday 2nd of April, a protest will be held at Finsbury Park, and taking part is asked to wear their mask and maintain social distancing. On Saturday at 1 pm protesters will be in central London call to end the bill.
