ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 6-12-2004

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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Brian Haw is a 55-year-old evangelical Christian from Redditch. He has been protesting outside the Houses of Parliament against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002. Day and night for three years, he has lived in Parliament Square and expressed his views with banners and placards and, not least, his megaphone. The amplified sound of his trenchant criticism of Tony Blair has risen above the ceaseless noise of traffic and penetrated the chambers of the Palace of Westminster. He has irritated the government to such an extent that David Blunkett, the currently beleaguered Home Secretary, has been trying to bring in a special law to throw him out of the square. Whether you agree with him or not, it's impossible to fault his determination and, if we are to live in a real democracy, to object to his right to demonstrate how and where he has for the past three long years.

Brian Haw in Parliament Square during the Iraq march in September 2002 (image 2240-16b)

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