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Mary Beth Tinker was given detention for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War, leading to the Tinker v. Des Moines case.. Many employers, educational institutions, [5] and professional associations [6] maintain demonstration policies that limit the rights of their members to protest, for instance by restricting them to free speech zones.
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Egypt had been under a nearly-continuous state of emergency since 1967 (interrupted for 18 months in 1980–81); the People's Assembly renewed it every two to three years. [30] [32] [233] The state of emergency expired on 31 May 2012. [234] Tunisia declared state of emergency January 2011, following unrest from economic issues. [235]
The stated purpose of free speech zones is to protect the safety of those attending the political gathering, or for the safety of the protesters themselves. Critics, however, suggest that such zones are " Orwellian ", [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and that authorities use them in a heavy-handed manner to censor protesters by putting them literally out of sight ...
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In July 2011 three school children challenged the use of kettling of children at this protest. They sought a judicial review in the High Court, arguing it broke the laws of the European Convention on Human Rights , the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Children Act 2004 , mainly the right to protest and the safety of ...
Later it become more successful and more common in the 1980s as Cold War political alliances which supported status quo governance waned. [ 3 ] In the 1970s and 1980s, intellectuals in the Soviet Union and other Communist states , and in some other countries, began to focus on civil resistance as the most promising means of opposing entrenched ...