In this chapter, you will learn what protections the law gives you as an activist. We discuss the legal right to protest. We also talk about how this right is protected in practice, by looking at common police practices.

Local contexts #

The right to protest is different in every country. We have written guides that describe all these different local contexts:

• 🌐 International

• 🇦🇺 Australia

• 🇬🇷 Greece

• 🇳🇱 Netherlands (written in Dutch)

• 🇷🇺 Russia (written in Russian & English)

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Schotland

• 🇷🇸 Serbia

• 🇿🇦 South Africa

• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• 🇺🇸 United States (written in English and Spanish)

• 🇪🇬 Egypt ( written in Arabic)

• Add your country!

Legal support roles #

• ❤️ Arrestee support team

• 🏡 Legal back office (no guide yet)

• 👀 Legal observer (no guide yet)

Improve this page #

You can make this page about the right to protest better. Ways in which this chapter can be improved:

• Add a section on your country

• Create page about police violence

• Add guide for police liaisons

• Write article about intelligence services and surveillance (e.g. adding collecting resources such as these)

Search keywords #

By analysing what people are looking up on Google about the legal rights of activists, we understand better what kind of articles to write. People are looking up information about the following topics:

Attribution #

Parts of this chapter are an adaptation of the Wikipedia article on the rights to protest.