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'Not my King': the anti-monarchy protesters being threatened with arrest

Guardian, 14 Sep 2022
Civil liberties campaigners and others have expressed alarm about the response of police to anti-monarchy protesters after a number of incidents, one of which included the arrest and subsequent de-arrest of Symon Hill for shouting 'Who elected him?' when the proclamation of the new king was read out in Oxford.
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In London, Paul Powlesland, a barrister and climate activist who had held up a blank piece of paper in Parliament Square, said he had been threatened with arrest by a police officer under the Public Order Act. The advocacy group Liberty said that new powers recently given to the police to curtail protest, and how they were being enforced by officers, were a cause for deep concern

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