"Lord Falconer says it is "ridiculously overdone" to claim free speech is being undermined after the arrest of a woman for listing the UK's Iraq war dead.
Maya Evans, 25, recited the 97 names by the Cenotaph memorial to Britain's war dead in Whitehall, near Downing Street.
She was found guilty of breaking a new law stopping unauthorised protests within half a mile of Parliament.
The lord chancellor said the law was a "sensible" precaution to stop disorder rather than an attack on free speech.
Ms Evans, a vegan cook from Hastings, was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 costs after being found guilty of breaching the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
2005."
So this law is a sensible precaution to stop disorder? In what way was Ms Evans threatening disorder?
Obviously, Lord Falconer has no shame.
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