{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/55974.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":55974,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"harassment law","background":null,"additional_details":"The current criminal harassment law allows prosecution and penalty of the people on condition of their non-violent reversible disagreements in communication. Persistency in contacting (communicating with) anyone by any means is punishable under this law - on contrary, the refusal to communicate goes unnoticed by law.\r\nAs a consequence, to addition of penalizing non-violent people, harassment law shifts Court prosecution and Police from fighting violence and violent crime to non-violent thence not anti-social cases. The criminal law should not and can not to prosecute and penalize people on condition of non-violent reversible (permanent is temporary) disagreements, persistency or refusal of communication by any means.\r\nI petition Perliament (Government) to revise and change this particular law, abolishing its clauses of non-violent liability - that is make it unapplicable to non-violent cases, communication, behavior or people.        ","committee_note":null,"state":"closed","signature_count":3,"created_at":"2013-10-16T18:47:36.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:29:27.102Z","rejected_at":null,"opened_at":"2013-10-17T09:03:03.000Z","closed_at":"2014-10-17T09:03:03.000Z","moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2013-10-16T18:47:36.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":null,"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[],"signatures_by_country":[],"signatures_by_constituency":[],"signatures_by_region":[],"other_parliamentary_business":[]}}}