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		</div><p>Extinction Rebellion activists are launching legal action against the police in England over a London-wide ban on their protests.</p>
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<p>The move comes amid growing criticism of the ban, made under public order legislation already used to restrict the action to Trafalgar Square.</p>
<p>Activists continued protests in the capital in defiance of the police order, targeting the Department for Transport and locking themselves to a caravan on Millbank.</p>
<p>Human rights lawyer Tobias Garnett, working for Extinction Rebellion, said the group would be filing a High Court claim challenging the ban on the grounds it is “disproportionate and unlawful”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_141989" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-141989" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-141989" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/0BFE4606-4B12-4F5C-BC16-4AB89DB2981C.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="338" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-141989" class="wp-caption-text">Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook outside the Department for Transport in Westminster</figcaption></figure>
<p>The group was planning to file a claim on Tuesday afternoon, and was seeking an expedited hearing.</p>
<p>Mr Garnett said the police order limiting protests “risks criminalising anyone who wants to protest in any way about the climate and ecological emergency that we face”.</p>
<p>Under the current order, any assembly – classed as a gathering of two or more people – linked to Extinction Rebellion in London is unlawful.</p>
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<p>Lawyers have questioned the legality of ban, aimed at halting further protests after more than a week of disruption by the environmental activists in London, while a number of politicians expressed outrage over the move.</p>
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