Brain Haw supporting Maya Evans right to free speech, in the rain outside the Courts Of Justice, the High Court in the Strand. She is appealing against her conviction under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA), for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration within 1km of Parliament Square. Maya Anne Evans was arrested in October after reading out names of soldiers killed in Iraq at central London's Cenotaph without police permission. Evans made history by being the first person to be convicted under the new controversial law banning unauthorised protests in the exclusion zone. She refused to pay the fine. Strand, London, UK, 16th November 2006
Date: 16/11/2006
Location: The Strand London, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
