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17 March 2021

“Yes, you can… but only if you’re quiet”

The UK is undertaking changes to its ‘law of protest’, which have the capacity drastically to re-orientate the relationship between citizen and state in favour of the latter. The draft Bill takes little or no account of the important role protest plays in a free society and coincides with police officers forcefully breaking up a peaceful vigil to mark the murder of Sarah Everard last week. These images highlight how unbalanced, unnecessary and unprincipled the changes are – many of its planned changes seek to plug non-existent gaps. Continue reading >>
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04 September 2020

At the Margin of Society

On the marginalized, the marginalizers and a false symmetry. Continue reading >>
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15 November 2019

Wenn Menschen­rechts­verletzungen nicht benannt werden

Die massiven Proteste im Irak finden in Deutschland vergleichsweise wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Das könnte damit zusammenhängen, dass die Bundesregierung und andere westliche Staaten die massiven Menschenrechtsverletzungen dort erst spät, zögerlich und sporadisch benannt und öffentlich kritisiert haben – im Widerspruch zu Deutschlands ausgerufenem Ziel, für eine regelbasierte internationale Ordnung einzustehen. Continue reading >>
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18 October 2019

An Exotic Right

The Spanish Supreme Court's ruling in the trial against Catalan secessionist leaders will definitely not help to solve the conflict. Quite on the contrary, it will make it intractable in the short run, as we are beginning to see in the riots in the streets of Barcelona. In my opinion, this ruling is unjust and legally wrong. Even worse, it is unconstitutional since it compromises the fundamental democratic rights of protest – the freedom of expression, the freedom of assembly, and the right to demonstrate. Continue reading >>
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