One week af­ter pro­test­er Alyssa Phillip and her moth­er Camille Cares­quero were ar­rest­ed dur­ing the Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) is ques­tion­ing the rea­son­ing be­hind re­strict­ing pub­lic ac­cess to cer­tain ar­eas and of the fur­ther ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency.

Un­der the no-protest zone or­der, peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ing in pub­lic protests or demon­stra­tions are pro­hib­it­ed from be­ing at, or with­in 500 me­tres of, sev­er­al key state in­sti­tu­tions and sen­si­tive fa­cil­i­ties across T&T, in­clud­ing the Red House, Wood­ford Square, the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Pres­i­dent’s House and the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing.

In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, how­ev­er, LATT ques­tioned the ra­tio­nale be­hind the 500-me­tre dis­tance man­dat­ed for the 15 ar­eas.