Nine Save the Children staff were summarily dismissed at the government's insistence after a three-page security report alleged that they were facilitating protests and passing confidential information off the island.
Nine Save the Children staff were summarily dismissed at the government's insistence after a three-page security report alleged, without any corroborating evidence, they were facilitating protests and sending confidential information off the island.
Temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim, the Acpo lead on public order and public safety, said: "There is no doubt that the face and shape of protests continues to change and we continuously learn from sharing our knowledge and experience of facilitating protests across the country.
The army may well "facilitate" protests, but - in the absence of a critical mass of army defections - what it will not do is facilitate a violent capture of the presidential palace.
It was in the mosques of Cairo where conscientious objectors gathered to facilitate protests and social-media campaigns that brought the world's attention to the wave of revolutions that spread to Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
The state should not create any unnecessary obstacles and has a positive duty to facilitate protest, including counter-protest.
Facilitating protest must include adherence to all human rights law, including the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
E-mail may have facilitated protest by the Falun Gong, but protest does not equal democratization, especially when answered by crackdowns from a powerful government.
Under these conditions, government transparency plays an important role in facilitating protest because it allows citizens to better understand the extent of discontent with the government.
Morrison declined to apologise in March 2015 when an earlier report he commissioned, the Moss review, found a lack of evidence that contract service providers on Nauru had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations.
The Moss review found no conclusive evidence that the staff members had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations, and called on the immigration department to review the decision to remove them.
