Proposals by a senior government adviser have put forward plans for banning several groups, including Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action, under the term "extreme protest groups" in the UK.
A BBC report says the adviser on political violence, John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, suggested modeling it after the approach applied to terrorist organizations.
Woodcock says the groups that systematically resort to criminal means to achieve their goals should be proscribed. According to Woodcock, groups like Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil use criminal means to create chaos and control the public and the workers with impunity.
If implemented, the measures can bar a group from fundraising and its right to assemble in British territory.
Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion activists, who have been engaging in disrupting public life with massive protests involving tactics like gluing and chaining, are in the target of these plans.
Just Stop Oil has dismissed the suggested plans, blaming the government for harming society with their policy on climate as the "dangerous radicals."
The BBC reported that the government is considering the recommendations of the report. The Home Office has stated that a minority of protesters have indulged in "violent and hateful behavior" over the last few months and maintained that it has a policy of zero tolerance toward any extremism that seeks to bully, intimidate or disrupt the peace that the law-abiding majority enjoys.
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