As the British MPs return from their summer recess, anti-war protesters have been told they will be arrested if they bring their protest near the halls of Parliament.
Campaigners say this is the first time Scotland Yard has invoked an ancient law to prevent them demonstrating near Parliament, describing it is an "unprecedented attack on civil liberties". One said the impetus for the crackdown on the march had come from Government, adding: "In this new era [under Gordon Brown] they want to draw a line under the anti-war movement."
The Independent has more.
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