Imposing time and noise limits on protests could potentially have a significant impact on the rights to freedom of expression and assembly, Europe’s human rights chief said. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović said on Monday that she has written to UK lawmakers from both houses of the Parliament, urging them to reject the provisions in a new bill that would impose new limits on protests. The Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill, which covers a wide range of issues, would give police new powers to “impose conditions on protests that are noisy enough to cause ‘intimidation or harassment’ or ‘serious unease, alarm, or distress’ to bystanders,” including one-person protests. The provisions are a response to several disruptive Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion protests that caused road closures, disruption of newspaper printing, and vandalism of statues last year, but critics worry the broad rules would …