LATEST NEWS
JUSTICE FOR ALFIE MEADOWS
PRESS RELEASE TWO WEEK DISCIPLINARY HEARING OF PC MARK ALSTON BEGINS 11AM ON 4 DECEMBER 2021 At 21 New Street, London, EC2M 4TP On 9 December 2021 Alfie Meadows was a 20 year old philosophy student from Middlesex University when he joined student protests against the tripling of tuition fees.… Read More
Know Your Rights – A Guide for Protesters
Check out our new Know Your Rights handbook – a new guide co-produced with the National Union of Students (NUS) containing lots of practical information about attending a protest.… Read More
Solidarity with the East St defendants!!
Three people are facing trial this October following an immigration raid on East St on June 21st 2015.… Read More
Access to justice and challenging the legal aid cuts: where are we?
Despite the legal aid system being introduced to provide equal access to the courts, over recent years, it has been, and is being, systematically eroded so as to make civil rights unenforceable, and generally only available to the rich.… Read More
Liverpool To London People Demand #Justice4Mzee
Hundreds joined the Justice for Mzee march in Liverpool There was a phenomenal turnout in Liverpool on Saturday as up to 1000 people came out to show their solidarity with the family of Mzee Mohammed - demanding truth and justice with regards to his death in police custody last Wednesday.… Read More
“I Can’t Breathe” - The Killing Of Jimmy Mubenga And The Violence Of Deportation
Last year three former G4S guards (Detention and Custody Officers) were acquitted of the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga, killed while being deported by plane from the UK in October 2010.… Read More
My Friend Leon Briggs Died in Police Custody – How Long Are People Going to Tolerate This?
The sound of sirens and reports of deaths at the hands of police in the U.S.… Read More
My Brother Died In Police Custody - Here’s What Black Lives Matter Means To Me
#BLackLivesMatter protesters join with Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell demonstration outside Bham Police Station. Pic Natalie Jeffers Across the world Black lives are worth less than any other race and it has always been so.… Read More
#BLACK LIVES MATTER solidarity actions around the UK
Take the BlackLivesMatter pledge – to show your support and be kept up to date with actions.… Read More
I was targeted as a Muslim supporting Palestine – and that is what Prevent is designed for
There are only two things I genuinely hate on the face of the earth. Hay fever, and white, Etonian men thinking they know the cures to all of societies problems.… Read MoreCampaigns
What issues are DTRTP currently focused on?
Defence Campaigns
Practical support and advice if you’ve been arrested
Stop Prevent
National campaign to build opposition to the Prevent duty.
Deaths In Custody
Solidarity work with families & friends demanding justice
Legal Aid
Justice for all not just the rich! Campaigning against the cuts
Protest Policing
Resisting police violence & attacks on the right to protest
Undercover Cops
Challenging surveillance of our movements and lives
Resources, Support & Advice
About Us
Defend the Right to Protest (DTRTP) was formed in the wake of violent police tactics and arrests at the student protests of November and December 2010 to build a collective response to the criminalisation of large numbers of young protesters.
We are a national campaign involving a network of protester defendants and their families, activists, trade unionists, academics and lawyers.
We seek to ensure protesters who are unjustly arrested or criminalised are not left to fight alone. We campaign against policing, policies and practices that threaten the right to protest and our civil liberties. We work in solidarity with a range of community and family justice campaigns challenging state violence and racism.
Contact Us
Defend the Right to Protest
BM DTRTP
London
WC1N 3XX07928 579605
