People sit next to a placard reading "Please help Jones' Hill Wood, stop High Speed 2 (HS2)" during a 'Kill The Bill' protest, in Parliament Square, London, Britain. Almost half of the ancient woodland Jones' Hill Wood is planned to be chopped down to make way for the route of High Speed 2 (HS2) and the topsoil will be translocated. Activists gathered in Hyde Park and marched to Parliament Square to protest against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, despite the Covid-19 lockdown and the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral in Windsor. The proposed legislation would give police in England and Wales more powers to impose conditions on non-violent protests including those deemed too noisy or a nuisance, with those convicted liable to fines or jail terms.
- Package: Britain Kill The Bill Protest
- Categories: Social Issues
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Event date: 17.04.2021
- Date published: 18.04.2021
- Author: Aiyush Pachnanda
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3760x2721px, 8.6Mb
- Job-ID: c82c55ffca0eb180