Reposted by Brendan Minish
This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups.
These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report.
*be a shame if people kept sharing it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...
drive.google.com
Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
![Of the 70 protests attended by the network in 2025, only one was considered non-compliant with human rights-based policing guidelines – a Palestinian solidarity event in Dublin on October 4th. On the day, Wall says, a smaller group of about 150 people broke away from a large demonstration in the city centre and rerouted to Dublin Port. There, they were stopped by a line of gardaí. Wall says the group linked arms and tried to push through Garda lines, and that officers responded by using pepper spray and drawing batons. Protesters withdrew and gardaí followed them, Wall says, continuing to use pepper spray.
A standoff ensued and, according to the claims, the protesters marched back around the block attempting to get to Dublin Port from a different direction. This time they were greeted by members of the Garda National Public Order Unit (GNPOU), who used pepper spray and batons “from the outset” as protesters again attempted to break through the lines.
“They beat a number of people [and] pepper-sprayed a number of people,” Wall says.
In a statement issued on October 4th An Garda Síochána said its members “attempted to engage with the protest group over the course of the afternoon to disperse the protest in a voluntary manner”.
“Despite this engagement there was a co-ordinated and concerted effort to physically breach the Garda cordon. In accordance with procedures An Garda Síochána deployed an escalation of response.”
The statement said members of the GNPOU and frontline uniformed gardaí “intervened to prevent a breach of the Garda cordon, which included the use of incapacitant spray on protesters”.
Wall says the network’s findings on October 4th were that “gardaí, in the first instance, had not given any direction to the protesters not to keep coming. The protesters were pushing and shoving, and the guards, in response to that, pepper-sprayed them and beat them”.
“There is perhaps a discussion about whether or not that initial interaction was legitimate,” he s…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zdduilknsuqlql34lkbf5ge5/bafkreifz7h4uqtgcjowovrgdpsyzfz6kdrfhegnctbizaw6avtyh3kfzge)
