The phrase "a statement of protest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal expression of objection or dissent regarding a particular issue or situation.
Example: "The organization issued a statement of protest against the new policy that they believe undermines workers' rights."
Alternatives: "a declaration of dissent" or "an expression of opposition".
The Communist Party of the Philippines was one of the few groups to make even a statement of protest about the visit by the United States Marines.
Nato issued a statement of protest at the Russian incursions, adding: "Allies also note the extreme danger of such irresponsible behaviour".
At a 1981 meeting of Argentine writers in Buenos Aires he helped draft a statement of protest concerning writers who had disappeared.
Instead there is confusion, anguish, ambivalence, fear: broad (but not vague) feelings transformed by war and by music into a statement of protest.
Avoiding any immediate retaliatory actions, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou's office issued a statement of "protest against these new discriminatory measures" and a "warning of consequences that they might ring".
You may not realise that the critic exhorting you to check out that Iranian claymation epic is only doing so as a statement of protest against Western interference in the Middle East.
Seventy-nine statfers at Lenta.ru issued a statement of angry protest, reading, "Over the past couple of years, the space of free journalism in Russia has dramatically decreased.
It is likewise clear from the context of petitioners' act that in burning a flag they were making a statement of political protest; here, as in Spence, "it would have been difficult for the great majority of citizens to miss the drift of (petitioners') point".
Those words were written on a wall in Deraa in southern Syria by a group of teenagers, a bold statement of protest in a country that never saw dissent.
But when the second encore came around, Mr. Vedder emerged cradling a mask of President Bush, and sang "Bushleaguer," a strong statement of protest: "Drilling for fear keeps the job simple/Born on third, thinks he got a triple".
A grouping of jaundiced-looking figures in "Relief Blues" by Louis Guglielmi is a strong statement of protest against prevailing constrained conditions, as is, in its own way, "Paper Workers," by Douglass Crockwell, in which the men are represented as robotlike machines.
