gordon brown, on protest near parliament, when he seized power in june this year:

"GORDON BROWN is to make a symbolic gesture to critics of the Iraq war by allowing antiwar protesters to demonstrate and march outside parliament.
This will reverse legislation introduced by Tony Blair two years ago to restrict the rights of people to camp on Parliament Square and install banners criticising the government.
The move, one of the announcements planned for the new prime minister’s first 100 days in office, comes amid encouraging opinion polls for Brown. It will be an early sign that Brown intends to be more sympathetic to critics of the war, although it will disappoint those who have been calling for him to declare an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq."
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1977614.ece

gordon brown's government is using an ancient sessional order dating back centuries to prevent a planned 'stop the war coalition' march to parliament next monday:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,,2181671,00.html

brian haw was visited today in parliament square by police who issued a new set of conditions on his ever more controlled non-stop protest against the invasion of afghanistan and iraq.
in may 2006, police mounted a huge night-time raid on brian haw's protest display in an operation costing a total of more than a hundred thousand pounds which was later shown in court to have been unlawful.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6897656.stm

with the ban on the stwc protest next monday, and today's new conditions from the police, supporters fear for brian's safety.

meanwhile gordon brown hypocritically defends the rights to peaceful protest in burma and reneges on his 100-day promises

gordon brown on burma last week:
“I condemn the violence that has been used against the unarmed Burmese protestors who have been exercising with great bravery their right to peaceful protest."
 http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7559