18 h. ago Police raid London Quaker house, arrest six activists discussing climate protests

Police raid London Quaker house, arrest six activists discussing climate protests  Straight Arrow News

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31 h. ago Drone footage exposing conditions at marine park leads to police raid

Drone footage of animal conditions at a Florida marine park has led to a raid by local law enforcement and wildlife officials.

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33 h. ago Paisley businessman's shock as police raid cannabis farm above furniture shop

Ryan Hutchins, director of Lara May Sofas, learned of the cultivation on Tuesday when police officers swooped on the third and fourth floors of the building on Causeyside Street.

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36 h. ago Moment brothel owner tries to hide six phones during police raid on gang that ran massive prostitution and human trafficking ring

Lina Wang (pictured) played a leading role in the prostitution of vulnerable victims in multiple towns and cities across the UK including Canterbury, Chatham, Dartford and Tunbridge Wells.

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40 h. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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55 h. ago Turkish barber shops police crackdown: Cops raid dozens of businesses being run as front for money laundering and seize hundreds of thousands of pounds in dirty cash

Bodycam footage shows West Mercia officers smashing their way into the businesses which are increasingly used as fronts by criminal gangs.

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62 h. ago Youth Demand vows to press on with 'disruptive' protests as Met accused of 'traumatising women' during arrests

Youth Demand held a rally in central London on Tuesday night - days after more than 30 police officers made six arrests at Quaker meeting house

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3 d. ago Youth Demand say they will press on with 'disruptive' action in London after pro

It came days after members of the group were arrested at a Quaker meeting

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3 d. ago Police raid at Quaker meeting condemned as 'unprecedented level of police repression'

More than 20 police officers raided a meeting of the activist group Youth Demand at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster, which has been condemned as an 'aggressive violation' by the Quakers in Britain

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4 d. ago Man arrested as police seize '£37,000 worth of cocaine' in North Lanarkshire raid

A 35-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.

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5 d. ago Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members

Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members  WSWS

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5 d. ago Quakers condemn Met Police over ‘aggressive’ arrests at ‘shut down London’ protest meeting

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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5 d. ago Met Police arrest six activists at Quaker meeting house over ‘shut down London’ plot

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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5 d. ago Dozens of police officers batter down door of pacifist Quaker meeting house to arrest activists 'discussing climate change and Gaza'

More than 30 police officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held at the Westminster Meeting House at around 7.30pm on Thursday, March 27, according to Youth Demand.

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5 d. ago Quakers condemn Met Police raid as six arrested in Westminster meeting house

Youth Demand said their members were planning non-violent protests in April when they were arrested in a Quaker meeting house

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6 d. ago Police discover £100k of cocaine and heroin during raid in Glasgow

Officers searched a flat on Dyke Road in the north west of the city on Friday at 2.50pm, where they sized 3kg of cocaine and 1kg of heroin.

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6 d. ago Connecticut woman accused of holding stepson captive for 20 years pleads not guilty

The 32-year-old paints a picture of two decades of severe abuse, while his stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, denies all wrongdoing, writes Josh Marcus

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7 d. ago New London cop's fourth arrest was for driving by woman's house despite court order, police say

New London cop's fourth arrest was for driving by woman's house despite court order, police say  CT Insider

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8 d. ago Police drop investigation into raid on Gary Barlow’s £6million mansion

The raid happened on April 7 last year

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8 d. ago The most controversial Just Stop Oil protests as climate group ceases direct action

Just Stop Oil has announced it will stop direct action and hold its final protest in April

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