How to Criminalize a Protest

Know Your Rights | Protesters' Rights | ACLU

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place ...

Repression of Peaceful Protest - American Civil Liberties Union

Those who wish to join together in peaceful protest or assembly risk police violence, mass arrests, infiltration, surveillance, and the criminalization of ...

Know Your Rights: Free Speech, Protests & Demonstrations

The government can't deny a permit just because past demonstrations by your group or others ended in civil disobedience or a disorderly brawl. Likewise, ...

States Are Restricting Protests and Criminalizing Dissent | Teen Vogue

21 states across the country have passed new laws that restrict protests — nearly 50 in total — with dozens more being introduced annually.

How to Criminalize a Protest - New York Magazine

In Atlanta, the George Floyd demonstrators are being prosecuted as gang members. The activists of today could be next.

Criminalization of Protest in the Fight for Racial Justice

In the wake of unrest following George Floyd's murder, a growing number of states are introducing laws to hold protesters criminally and ...

How the Right Turned Protest Into A Criminal Enterprise

Street protest bans: Blocking traffic or a sidewalk without a permit during a protest is now a jailable offense in several states, including ...

US Protest Law Tracker - ICNL

Increases penalties for protesters who block traffic and for masked protesters who break any law. The law makes it a Class A1 misdemeanor, punishable by up to ...

The Criminalization of Dissent and Protest: Crime and Justice: Vol 52

The use of vague concepts is a key mechanism in the criminalization of political dissent, as is their labeling as a “security problem.” The ...

Right to protest - Amnesty International

This means they shouldn't interfere with protests, unless there is a legitimate threat to the safety and rights of others. If police try to stop or limit a ...

Repression and criminalization of protest around the world

Despite the principle of nonviolence underlying these protests, these demonstrations are illegal under Israeli military law. ... Criminalization of protest ...

Criminalizing Political Protests | LHA

Since 2012, it's been a crime to protest or disrupt an official government event or rally for a candidate protected by the Secret Service. In ...

Protecting Protest is Protecting Democracy - Legal Defense Fund

Among other things, H.B.1 risks criminalizing peaceful protest, discourages people from protesting, and otherwise infringes on First Amendment rights. A federal ...

Lock 'Em Up! How State Legislatures Are Criminalizing Protests

Twenty states have enacted laws restricting rights to peaceful protests, as environmentalists and others are increasingly criminalized.

Know Your Rights: General Guidance for Demonstrations and Protests

... that governments and police can violate this right through the use of mass arrests, illegal use of force, criminalization of protest, and other means intended.

From the President: Criminalizing the Tradition of Protest - NACDL

From the President: Criminalizing the Tradition of Protest. Several states are considering legislation that seems to be in response to citizens who engage in ...

The War on Protest Is Here - In These Times

Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.

Criminalizing right to protest deflects attention from the real issue

Responding to protests with criminal prosecution has an explicit purpose: to scare community members into silence, even in the face of grave ...

News - The Media's Role in Criminalizing Protest - Drilled

Evlondo Cooper at Media Matters reviewed media coverage of climate protests in the US from May 30th, 2022 to July 31st, 2023 for a new study.

how felony charges are weaponized against pipeline protesters | US ...

Since 2017, 20 states have passed laws that criminalize protesting, including on infrastructure – a broad category which can include pipelines ...