Disruptive climate protests are encouraging the authorities in some democracies to push for harsher anti-protest measures and new legislation. Civil rights groups fear the right to peaceful protest could come under threat. In Germany, for instance, climate activists from 'The Last Generation' have already been placed in preventive detention. Is more escalation on the horizon?
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Interviewees featured in this episode:
Katy Watts, lawyer with the human rights group Liberty, UK
Theo Schnarr, climate activist with The Last Generation, Germany