{"id":142406,"date":"2018-06-17T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/upskirting-row-mp-sir-christopher-chope-says-he-supports-ban\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T14:00:52","slug":"upskirting-row-mp-sir-christopher-chope-says-he-supports-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/upskirting-row-mp-sir-christopher-chope-says-he-supports-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Upskirting row: MP Sir Christopher Chope says he supports ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir Christopher Chope\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1169C\/production\/_102042317_edeba29d-8519-46f3-9f25-2a571e590e34.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  UK Parliament                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The Conservative MP who blocked a bill that would have made &quot;upskirting&quot; a criminal offence has said he &quot;wholeheartedly&quot; supports such a law.<\/p>\n<p>Had the law passed, someone secretly taking a photo up a woman&#039;s skirt could have faced up to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to his local paper, the Bournemouth Echo, Sir Christopher Chope said he was objecting to parliamentary procedure rather than the law itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Christchurch MP said he was not &quot;a dinosaur&quot; and was being &quot;scapegoated&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May said she was &quot;disappointed&quot; that one of her own MPs had prevented the bill from progressing. <\/p>\n<p>She added that she wanted to see the measures passed soon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was a victim of &#039;upskirting&#039; - but I&#039;m fighting back<\/li>\n<li>Speaker calls for private members&#039; bills rethink<\/li>\n<li>May &#039;disappointed&#039; at upskirting law block<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Christopher said upskirting was &quot;vulgar, humiliating and unacceptable&quot; and said accusations he was &quot;some kind of pervert&quot; were &quot;a complete travesty of the truth&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s defamatory of my character and it&#039;s very depressing some of my colleagues have been perpetuating that in the past 48 hours,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06b651s.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionHear MPs shout &quot;shame&quot; after Sir Christopher objects to the bill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He explained that he stopped the bill from progressing because he disapproved of how the legislation was being brought in.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The government has been hijacking time that is rightfully that of backbenchers,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is about who controls the House of Commons on Fridays and that&#039;s where I am coming from.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He accused the government of trying to &quot;bring in what it wants on the nod&quot;, adding: &quot;We don&#039;t quite live in the Putin era yet.&quot; <\/p>\n<h2>&#039;Shame&#039;<\/h2>\n<p>The bill was expected to sail through the Commons on Friday, but parliamentary rules mean it only required one MP to shout &quot;object&quot; to block its progress.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Christopher&#039;s intervention was met with shouts of &quot;shame&quot; from other MPs.<\/p>\n<p>His actions were attacked by MPs - many from his own party.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish Conservative MP Paul Masterton said the intervention did &quot;damage&quot; to the public&#039;s view of the party.<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p05ysrhr.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media caption&quot;He was laughing&quot;: Three women tell the BBC&#039;s Victoria Derbyshire about their experience of upskirting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What is the current law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no law specifically naming and banning upskirting in England and Wales - victims and police are currently only able to pursue offences of outraging public decency or as a crime of voyeurism<\/li>\n<li>Upskirting has been an offence in Scotland since 2010 when it was listed under the broadened definition of voyeurism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the limitations of the current situation in England and Wales?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voyeurism only applies to filming actions taking place in private<\/li>\n<li>Outraging public decency usually requires someone to have witnessed the action but upskirting is often unobserved<\/li>\n<li>Unlike other sexual offences, people don&#039;t have an automatic right to anonymity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does the new law propose?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As well as carrying a maximum two-year sentence, it would also allow, in the most serious cases, those convicted to be placed on the sex offenders register<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright UK Parliament The Conservative MP who blocked a bill that would have made &quot;upskirting&quot; 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