Treating a protest group as terrorists takes a leaf from the playbook of authoritarian rulers around the world. But this is not the only draconian assault on protest rights that Andy Burnham, the UK’s new prime minister, has inherited. The previous Conservative government introduced a series of laws creating new protest related offenses and dramatically increased the prison sentences possible for peaceful protest activities. Gina Romero, the United Nations special rapporteur on protest rights, described the Crime and Policing Act as “fundamentally incompatible with international human rights obligations.” And the Prime Minister should direct the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to reverse the badly mistaken designation of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group.”