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Cops will be given more powers to stop protests near synagogues, mosques and churches

Published on March 27, 2025 at 04:01 AM

Cops will be given more powers to stop protests near synagogues, mosques and churches
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POLICE will be given more powers to stop protests near synagogues, mosques and churches.

They will be able to cancel demonstrations they fear will intimidate those using places of worship.

Pro-Palestine protestors holding signs.
Police will be given more powers to stop protests near synagogues, mosques and churches (stock picture)

It toughens their existing rights under the Public Order Act to place restrictions on protests.

Climbing on war memorials was already slated to be a criminal offence — and it will be extended to cover a planned Holocaust memorial in London.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the right to protest must be protected — but so must those who wished to pray in peace.

She said: said: “The right to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy which must always be protected, but that does not include the right to intimidate or infringe on the fundamental freedoms of others.”

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said protests near synagogues had caused “serious and unacceptable disruption to our communal life” in the past 18 months.

He called the disorder targeting mosques during rioting last summer “similarly intolerable”.

Mark Gardner, chief executive of Jewish charity the Community Security Trust, said: “The cumulative impact on central London synagogues of repeated large, noisy protests has been intolerable.

“We welcome these new measures to protect the rights of the Jewish community to pray in peace and we thank the Home Secretary for her ongoing support.”

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