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Peace protests at military bases ‘under threat’ from new security Bill, campaigners warn
Demonstrators at an anti-Trident CND rally in Parliament Square, London, in 2016

PEACE protests at nuclear weapons sites and military bases could be at risk under a new national security law currently making its way through Parliament, campaigners have warned. 

Military bases and nuclear weapons establishments - which are designated as prohibited places under espionage laws — have long been a target of anti-war and anti-nuclear protests.

But campaigners now fear that protests at these sites could be repressed under measures contained in the National Security Bill. 

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