Repressive injunctions against musicians
Sixty-five signatories from human rights organisations, as well as musicians, lawyers and academics, call on the Metropolitan police to stop using repressive injunctions against musicians as a means to reduce gang violence. ‘The heavy-handed policing of music, and the structurally racist outcomes that follow from it, are not new,’ write 65 signatories of this letter to the Guardian.
We note the recent conviction of two young musicians, and wish to register our serious concern at the increasing use of so-called “gang injunctions” as a means of policing artistic expression (‘They made us criminals for making music’, G2, 1 February). These injunctions are demonstrably ineffective at tackling youth violence, and present a threat to all our civil liberties. The injunction that precipitated the conviction of these two artists was alarming in its breadth.
For full article https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/feb/03/stop-criminalising-our-musicians
