This week's liberty central civil liberties hero of the week award goes to Paul Saville, the 23-year-old student arrested for writing the following protest in chalk on a pavement: "Liberty. The right to question it. The right to ask: "Are we free?"

As Henry Porter points out, it is rather ironic that Saville has been charged with criminal damage by the police for protesting at the "loss of civil liberties" in Britain. Saville said: "The whole reason I was writing in chalk was because I wanted to get my message across without causing lasting damage."

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