{"id":374,"date":"2018-01-21T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=374"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:06:30","slug":"high-court-urged-to-scrap-tas-protest-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/high-court-urged-to-scrap-tas-protest-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court urged to scrap Tas protest laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; <strong>au.news.yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The landmark case, which is due to begin in Canberra on Tuesday, stems from Dr Brown&#8217;s arrest while filming a video about an anti-logging protest at Lapoinya State Forest in Tasmania&#8217;s northwest in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>While police have dropped criminal charges against Dr Brown, he wants the High Court to overturn Tasmanian laws targeting protesters who can be fined up to $10,000 and jailed for four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Law Centre has filed submissions to the court supporting Dr Brown&#8217;s case, arguing Tasmania&#8217;s laws are intended to shut down vital debate and prioritise business interests above the rights of protesters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case is important because it gives the High Court the chance to determine the extent to which Australians&#8217; speech and protest rights are protected under the Australian Constitution,&#8221; the centre&#8217;s legal advocacy director Emily Howie said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/high-court-urged-to-scrap-tas-protest-laws\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; au.news.yahoo.com The landmark case, which is due to begin in Canberra on Tuesday, stems from Dr Brown&#8217;s arrest while filming a video about an anti-logging protest at Lapoinya State Forest in Tasmania&#8217;s northwest in January 2016. While police have dropped criminal charges against Dr Brown, he wants the High Court to overturn Tasmanian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,821],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-high-court","tag-protest-laws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}